Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...best. Jacobs's stroke lacks vigor, particularly on the catch. He drops his hands badly at the end of the recover, - a fault which leads to a serious trick of clipping, when rowing in the boat, - and sticks his right elbow out awkwardly. Schwartz's improvement is marked. Brigham has lost a week, from a slight sickness, and shows plainly the lack of coaching during that time. While Brigham has an admirable physique for an oarsman, he is awkward and a poor waterman, and needs more coaching than almost any of the other candidates. In the recover he starts forward...
...desirable. The captain, who has been coaching most of the time since the holidays, last week took stroke's lever, - Schwartz going to 6, and LeMoyne, '78, to 4. Bancroft has an inclination to bucket, to screw at the finish, and does not always get his hands out properly. Brigham and LeMoyne, '78, have both improved on the use of their slides. Brigham does not set his shoulders firmly at the catch, and he lets them "give" when he takes hold. At times he fails to get his arms straight at the end of the recover. He also...
...powerful man, but as yet awkward and stiff. Within the past three weeks, however, he has made decided improvement. Jacobs is doing well at 7, but fails to use his arms properly. He drops his hands before taking hold, does not pull them in high enough, and has, like Brigham, a habit of sticking his elbows out at the finish...
...catch" and use of the slide. The shoulders "droop" at the "beginning," the backs are not kept straight, and above all the recovery is "ragged. The following men are now candidates for the crew: Legate, F. J. Le Moyne, Harriman, W. M. Le Moyne, Loring, Littauer, Schwartz, Jacobs, Brigham, Crocker, Preston, and Conlan...
Monday, Jan. 22. - Twelve men present. Pull seven hundred and fifty strokes. Run two miles. In the absence of W. M. Le Moyne, Crocker pulled at "6." Brigham, who pulled "5" to-night, uses his slide too soon in the stroke, gets hardly enough body reach forward, and when he tries for more, is inclined to "bucket.' He does not shoot his hands out and pull them in on the same level, is inclined to pull them in too low, and goes back too far. Brigham is one of the strongest men that are trying, and pulls with more fire...