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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sophomore year he was a member of the Weld graded crew, and was taken up to the University squad as a result of the race. Last year he was a regular member of the four-oar and was placed at 2 in the University eight when Fish left the boat...
...through the season with their teams. Last fall the football eleven lost its leader in the middle of the season, and now it is announced that illness has caused the resignation of the captain of the crew. It will be hard to fill Severance's place in the boat and it will be hard for the crew to change its captain, but if bad fortune had to come, we are glad that it came at this time. There are more than the usual number of good oarsmen in College now, and although difficult, it will not be impossible to find...
...Withington '09, met A. G. Mather of the Medford Boat Club in a special heavy-weight wrestling match, Withington had recently won the New England championship from Mather. In Saturday's match, the first bout of six minutes was a draw. In the second bout, however, Withington scored a rolling fall and won the match, the time being 1 minute and 44 seconds...
Spring rowing at Yale has now been in progress for several days and at present 13 squads of candidates for the first boat are working daily, the largest number in years. Of the freshmen there are 11 squads working on the machines. Rowing in the tank has been superseded altogether by practice on the machines, and the university squad is expected to be on the water very soon. Two new English boats, similar to those which Harvard has, have been received and will be given an early trial...
Concerning athletics at Harvard in the late fifties Mr. Spaulding spoke with enthusiasm of the devotion of the undergraduates to all kinds of physical exercises and out-of-door sports. Football, baseball and cricket were played, while boating on the Charles River was a pastime popular with all. There were at Harvard no fewer than 12 boat clubs in those days. One of these, the "Orion," had for its president Charles W. Eliot '53. In early intercollegiate regattas Harvard was usually the winner, but sometimes the prize even then went to Yale. After one of these defeats the officiating clergyman...