Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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July 21, 1855. Connecticut River, Springfield, Mass., one and a-half miles down stream and back, Iris, Harvard, (eight oared parges), 22m; Y. Y., Harvard (four-oared barge), 22.03; Nereid-Yale, (six oared) 23.38: Nautilus-Yale, (six-oared...
...next recorded match occurred four years later, and was the beginning of a series as follows, all over the same course: July 26, 1859. Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass., one-and-a-half miles up the lake and back; Harvard (shell) 19.18; Yale, (shell), 20.18, Harvard, (lapstreak), 21.13, Brown, (lapstreak...
...Gunnasso's hit. Dean got his first on balls, stole second, took third on Linn's sacrifice and home on Howland's. This was Harvard's only run. Howland got first on the attempt to put Dean out at the plate, but was doubled up in failling to get back to first base after Willard's long fly to right field...
...Rows short, and swings back at the finish...
...Clumsy; rushes his slide badly, and catches the water ahead of the stroke; swings back too far, shoots low and does not keep up the time of the stroke; oar is fair but not free enough...