Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman dormitory crews had their brush yesterday afternoon over the three-quarter mile course in the Basin, Gore Hall leading its nearest rival, Standish, over the line by about a length and a half. These two eights were rowing neck and neck for the first half of the distance, but towards the last the race developed into a contest in which it was a matter of which crew could keep up the pace they were going for the longest time, and Gore pulled in ahead. The second Gore boat had third place, and Smith lurched across last. The winning Bore...
Coach Brown had planned to race three of the class crews over a mile course in the Basin yesterday but rough weather forced him to change his plans and send them over the half mile straightway upstream. The brush was intended to serve as an elimination trial for Crews B and C of 1923 and B of 1922, but after the finish Coach Brown decided to put all the eights into the final race over the mile and seven-eighths course today...
Earlier in the afternoon Coach Howe divided the Freshman eight into two four-oared crews composed respectively of the men in the bow and the men in the stern. In a short brush with the Browne and Nichols four-oared crew, the 1924 bow four came in ahead of the stern four, while the schoolboys trailed...
Once in the Basin the three boats lined up for the brush, the first crew two lengths behind the second and third. Walter Amory, the 150-pound stroke acting captain for this week, kept the stroke at 26 for the first mile, and despite the higher stroke and the lead of the others, the first boat was even with the second at the Harvard Bridge. From then on, all crews heightened the stroke gradually, and in a well-timed spurt at the finish, the first crew, with a stroke which reached 40, pulled away from the rest and ended...
Coach Howe was well pleased with the result, and especially with the excellent showing of Amory at stroke. He is very optimistic concerning prospects for the season. What criticism he had to offer was mainly concerned with minor defects in the body swing of some men. After the brush he drilled the crews in getting the final drive with the legs at the end of their stroke which aids so greatly in carrying the shell forward between strokes. He also emphasized the spirit which the Freshmen seem to have and which is so necessary to a winning crew...