Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat of each division starts about a mile from the end of the course. A length and a half behind this the next boat starts and so on to the last boat in the division...
...object of the head boat to row over without being bumped, and of those behind it to bump the boat in front of them. When a boat has passed the finishing-post it cannot be bumped. Bumping consists in touching the boat ahead with some portion of your boat usually, of course, the bows of one boat bump the stern of the other. As soon as a bump has been made both boats draw into the side, and later paddle up to the barges when the crews behind them have passed by. On the next day each starts where...
...article such as this I can give no idea of the tremendous excitement which such races arouse. Their result is always in doubt. A "crab", or still worse, bad coxing may spell disaster; a dogged stroke in the boat ahead may stave off defeat with the enemy prow hanging above his rudder...
...bouncing of the boat betrays the nearness of the eight ahead, the cox hitherto vociferous in his assertions that the crew is "right up on them" becomes suddenly silent. The time has come when he must earn his passage. Slowly, infinitely slowly, the bows curve in. Too much rudder or a shot the wrong way, for it is impossible to see, means ruin. But he knows his boat and can tell from the feel what is happening. At last there is a slight jolt and the cox ahead rises his hand. But it is a tremendous relief to all when...
...goes on from year to year, boats going up and boats coming down. Nothing is certain, prognostications are always falsified in the event. In sheer surprise one college called its second boat "God" because it moved in a mysterious...