Bill Haines Dies After Illness; Coached Many of Varsity Crews

Bill Haines, uncle of 150-pound crew coach Bert Haines, and himself a former Harvard coach, died at Attleboro Saturday after a long illness. He was 79 years old.

Haines came to this country in 1911 after establishing a famous record as an oarsman in England. He started as a coach at the Union Boat Club in Boston, but transferred to Harvard in 1915, where he remained until accepting the position of head coach at MIT in 1923. His 1916 Crimson crow once set a four-mile record of 20 minutes and two seconds.