Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Columbia 'varsity crew rows on the Harlem every afternoon. Coach Peet supervises the men from a six-oared barge rowed by the substitutes. He is directing most of his attention to blade work and to a quick start on the recover. Pierrepont has not been stroking well of late, so Mr. Peet is trying Carter in that position, who is doing excellent work for his weight. The crew goes to the boathouse direct from college, and after practice has a run to quarters. They are under strict discipline while at the villa. A bath and a good rub-down follow...
...four bow men presented an excellent appearance in their body work and watermanship, Shepard, however, is not rowing well. His blade work and body work are both bad and do not seem to be improving...
Captain Forbes has worked hard over the new material in the '96 boat. Some improvement is noticeable, but the men are still very ragged in time, and all exhibit wretched blade work and get very little power in their stroke...
...chief excellence of the Harvard crew is the body work; for in both time and blade-work Yale excels. Where Harvard men may lay their hopes of their crew is in that splendid dash and vim and grit in which the crimson men go at their work. In the slower stroke Yale rows far the easier, more graceful stroke. But when they come to "hit up" the stroke to 36 and 37, as in the fourmile time row on Saturday, that superb finish vanishes. The time of that fourmile row was 21m. 10s., just one minute slower than the Thames...
They are quartered as usual at Gales Ferry, next to the Yale boat house, and have about ten days more to row before they meet Harvard and Yale. They are rowing a quick stroke this year, even going as high as thirty-eight to the minute. The watermanship and blade work is very good and the body work is all that saves them from being a fairly fast crew. Ragged as they are, they have made some good time already...