Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Sophomore crew won the race against Yale on Saturday afternoon, for the first time in the three years that the races have been held. Yale won the single sculls event. For the first quarter of a mile only was there any doubt which 1917 boat would win out. The start was at Cottage Farm bridge. After the first quarter mile the Sophomores slowed down to a low, powerful stroke. The lead was steadily increased. Just before the finish Henderson urged his men on to a final spurt with which they swept across the line a good three lengths...
Single sculling race.--Won by S. Gaillard, Yale; second, N. P. Darling '17; third, B. Carpenter, Jr., '16; fourth, G. Burton, Yale. Time, 5m., 51s. The Henley signal system proved a great success in that it enabled both those on Harvard bridge and at the Union Boat Club to know the positions of the boats all the way down...
...while Yale has sent down G. Burton and S. Gaillard. This race will be one mile in length and go from Cottage Farm bridge to Harvard bridge. The Sophomores will race over the mile and seven-eights course, starting at Cottage Farm bridge also and finishing at the Union Boat Club...
...leading candidates for stroke are H. A. Scragg who stroked his freshman four at Yale and R. S. McCabe of the Ariel Boat Club of Baltimore. At seven will be F. P. Cross who stroked the Princeton University crew in 1911 and 1912; (Princeton, it will be remembered, rows with the stroke on the starboard side.) J. E. Bennett, former Cornell basketball captain, who rowed in his Freshman boat at Ithaca and later the Cornell University boat until prevented by illness, will be at six. J. H. Philbin the Yale football and crew man of three years' first boat experience...
...coxswain's position will be taken care of by C. T. Abeles '13 former University captain and W. I. Badger the former Yale coxswain who are dividing the steering of the Union Boat Club this spring...