Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have been rowing in the first crew were dropped to the second. The Seniors have been rowing together in the same order for some time and have been showing steady improvement. Yesterday the first and second Sophomore crews rowed upstream together and in a fast stretch on the way back the second crew showed up well. The ability of the Freshman second eight is uncertain as three new men were put into the boat yesterday...
...laid off for a time and Bacon is being tried out in his position. Buxton has been moved down in the boat from 4, to replace Bacon, who has been rowing at 6. Deming and Sargent were both tried at 4 yesterday. The first two crews rowed up and back to the Brighton bridge twice and practiced starts...
Both eights, coached by Wray from his single, rowed upstream for about 1 and 3-4 miles and back to the University boathouse in several easy stretches. Both boats went poorly, as was to be expected from so many changes. The University crew especially had difficulty in maintaining an even keel...
...Princeton on Saturday by the score of 8 to 1. Princeton won the contest in doubles between Dixon and Pyne and Harlow and Pearson. This match was won only after three sets of hard tennis, in which Princeton excelled in net play, and Harlow and Pearson at the back line. The closest match was between Dixon and Pearson, the latter winning the third set by the narrow margin of 8 games to 6. The playing of Captain Morse against Captain Richardson was especially brilliant, in spite of the stiff wind, which made accurate tennis most difficult...
Seats for the grandstand for the boat races on Saturday, at $2 and $1.50 each, are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, Amee's and in Boston at Herrick's. The stand is situated near the finish, on Back street, between Otter and Berkeley streets, Boston, where the stand for the Cornell race was built last year...