Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...LONDON, CONN., June 10. - The Yale crew rowed over the course for the first time this evening, showing up in splendid form and doing the work that "Bob" Cook laid out for them very well. The Yale crew started from Gales Ferry in the launch, with the shell towing behind, to the point near the lower end of the former course. The crew stripped and getting into the shell, Captain Cook gave instructions as to what was to be done, and immediately the word was given. They pulled the long, steady stroke that has come to be distinctively Yale...
...BACON, Sec.HARVARD SOUTHERN CLUB. - Picture behind Sever Hall, Monday...
...BACON, Sec.HARVARD SOUTHERN CLUB. - Picture behind Sever Hall, Monday...
HARVARD SOUTHERN CLUB. - Picture behind Sever Hall, Monday...
...crew about twenty seconds longer to row up than down, which would make the course about ten seconds slower than dead water. During regattas navigation is suspended, and the continuous closing of the locks deadens the stream still more. The current is so slight that, with a moderate wind behind them, boats lying at ease slowly float up stream. The Schuylkill River, at Philadelphia, starting where the National races finish, and rowing up stream, is as nearly like the Henley water as any one course could be like another, and the upper Hudson, above the state dam, is very similar...