Word: boated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work in fall rowing for the three University crews will culminate tomorrow in the annual race of the three eights over the three and one-half mile course from the Stillman Infirmary to the Union Boat Club. The handicaps have not yet been decided...
Last week the University eight showed a slight improvement but as yet the rowing is only fair. Yesterday the crew took a long row down beyond Harvard Bridge and back. The work seemed smoother, with a better and more even body swing along the keel of the boat...
...crew as a whole is full of life and dash, well together, and should give the University eight a very hard fight. The third crew has also suffered much from repeated changes. Its chances, however, of making a hard race, have greatly increased since Wiggins has been stroking the boat, although the crew is hardly together and the slide work at times is poor...
...crowd. There were not more than ten thousand spectators present, but the attendants could have handled many times that number had there been seats enough, so perfect was the organization of affairs. Information officers were stationed at several places about the grounds, and even at the train and boat platforms. Two cadets were detailed to the press stand to announce the names of the Army players as they figured in the confusing succession of plays...
...crews rowed yesterday for the Filley Cup will not be counted, and the deciding race will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. In the race yesterday, darkness made it impossible for the crews to line up accurately for the start, as the coxswains could see scarcely a boat's length, and had difficulty in holding their courses after the gun was fired. The finish was so uncertain that the judges have decided that the race must be rowed again at a time when it is possible to see what is going...