Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kelley's crew rowed yesterday at 3.30 o'clock, going over the mile and three-quarter Basin course in a time trial. While Coach Stevens refused to give the time made, he announced that he was very pleased with the showing of the crew, and considered that the University boat stood an excellent chance of coming through a winner in its second race of the year...
Blue-tipped oars made their initial 1925 appearance on the Charles yesterday afternoon, when the Championship Junior Class crew, and the Eli Freshman 150-pound boat went out for short spins. The Yale eights will race the Crimson Class and 1928 lightweight crews tomorrow afternoon in the final events of the Harvard Invitation Regatta program...
Captain Kelley's crew will retain the same seating order this week against the midshipmen at Annapolis, as the eight which won on the Charles May 9. Coach Stevens was pleased with the showing of the winning Crimson boat, the greater smoothness of the visiting crews from Philadelphia being explained by their longer time on the water. The small crudities of style are rapidly disappearing, and the eight which faces the Navy this week will undoubtedly be a faster crew than the one which won its first start on the Charles...
While the first University crew has not changed the seating order, an important change has taken place in the second sheld Canning, who stroked the Junior boat for quite a while last year, and who has been rowing at number two since the beginning of rowing last fall, has been shifted to the stroke position, with Perkins going to number two seat. The change has worked to advantage in the second boat, but there is still a considerable superiority maintained by Captain Kelley's eight in the frequent practice brushes...
Racing Princeton on May 9, Navy won in nine minutes and 21 seconds. Harvard could undoubtedly have equaled the time of the Navy boat on Lake Carnegie, but the fact that the Annapolis outfit was not pressed gives no accurate determination of power. Sufficient to say that the University will enter the race on Saturday potentially the equal of the Navy crew, and probably a slight favorite...