Word: basins
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race between the two University four-oars, rowed downstream over the one and seven-eighths mile course in the Basin yesterday, resulted in a dead heat. Neither crew was able to gain a substantial lead at any time, and the lead alternated several times during the race...
...University crew defeated Cornell on Saturday over the one and seven-eighths mile course in the basin by 37 seconds, which under the prevailing Weather conditions represents a full 10 lengths. The decisive nature of this victory is to be accounted for by saying that the University crew proved better and the Cornell crew worse than expectations. Although the crews' chances were estimated as equal, and the high wind was even considered to give the advantage to the superior watermanship of Cornell, the University boat took the lead at the very start and crossed the finishing line without ever being...
...tactics adopted by the University crew during the past week. The practice has consisted principally of rowing short stretches at a high stroke and trying racing starts. The work on Tuesday was the only exception to this, for on that day the crew took a long row in the basin, going and returning in two stretches. On Monday the crew paddle to Brighton in easy stages, on Wednesday they rowed over a one-mile course in good time, and yesterday they again went down-stream. The rowing today will be of a light nature...
...Regatta at Philadelphia, Saturday, will be rowed at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The race will be over the Henley distance, a mile and 550 yards, from the Longwood Bridge through the Harvard Bridge. In case the Freshmen lose the race, they will row Springfield High School in the basin Saturday; but if they win and go to Philadelphia, the Freshman second crew will row the Springfield race...
Meanwhile the Freshmen are competing in track with the freshmen at New Haven, and the 1911 baseball team is matched against Brown '11. On the basin the class crews are fighting out the championship, and the single oarsmen are racing for the Carroll...