Word: boated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rowing were perfect. A large crowd lined the banks of the lake and the sides of the first bridge. The races were very closely contested and exciting throughout. In but one instance was there open water between the shells. The freshman club race was won by the academic boat while the Sheffield freshmen won the first crew contest. Contrary to former custom the university crew did not give an exhibition row, as the men were used in the class crews...
...fall graded races between the Weld and Newell boat clubs will be held o Wednesday, November 2, at 3.30 o'clock. The course will be up-stream from the Union Boat Club to the Longwood bridge, a distance of a mile and seven-eights...
...have penetrated the cloud. 1907, it would seem, need not be ashamed of her athletic record for the past year. Football, hockey and basketball victories over Yale, a baseball series with the Yale freshmen resulting in a tie, and a defeat at their hands in one of the closest boat races that has ever been rowed on the Thames, scarcely authorize the CRIMSON to speak of the "backwardness of the class in athletics." In addition to having men on the University football, baseball and track teams, 1907 won the interclass baseball championship. No Freshman class has succeeded in doing this...
Nine graded crews, four from the Weld and five from the Newell, are now rowing every afternoon in preparation for the fall graded races, which will be rowed up-stream from the Union Boat Club to Longwood Bridge on November 2. The work of all these crews is still crude, most of the men having the usual faults of rushing their slides and hanging back at the finish. The Weld crews are being coached by Rice and those at the Newell by Vail and M. R. Brownell...
Yesterday afternoon the first team and substitutes went through light signal practice before leaving Cambridge, to take the Fall River boat for New York. This morning the squad will go to West Point in a special sleeper, which will be held at West Point during the day, and will bring back the squad by way of Albany tonight, reaching Boston at 6.45 tomorrow morning...