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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday afternoon Senior crews rowed from the Newell boathouse, being the first upperclass eights to go on the river this spring. The crews rowed upstream a short distance and back. In spite of the fact that it was the first time out the crews rowed in good form...
...Saturday afternoon, three University and four Freshman crews took short practice rows from the Newell Boat Club in short stretches to a point just beyond the Stillman Infirmary and back. R. Ellis '09 was tried at number 3 on the first University crew, where R. M. Tappan '07 has been rowing. Otherwise the order was unchanged. Coaches Wray and Stephenson coached the crews...
...Freshman first crew was the first eight out on the river yesterday. Coached by Wray from his single scull, they rowed up-stream as far as the Brighton bridge and back to the University boathouse. On the way up-stream Forster and McLeod, who started out at stroke and 7 respectively, changed places. Most of the men are very crude as yet in their oarsmanship, but the crew is fairly heavy and well balanced. However, there will probably be a number of changes in it before any races are rowed...
...Wednesday, because of the inability to secure the Columbia gymnasium for tomorrow night. The Harvard team has defeated the Yale, Dartmouth and Brown freshmen, and Columbia has defeated the Princeton and Pennsylvania freshmen, so that the game should be very exciting. The team will leave Tuesday night from the Back Bay station, on the 6.04 train for Fall River, going to New York by boat...
...crew went out on the river for the first time this season. The crew used an old barge, which they boarded from the shore near the Newell Boat Club. In spite of the floating ice in the river, they rowed a short distance above the Boylston street bridge and back. Considering the fact that it was the first day on the river, the work was very encouraging...