Word: captain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...COOK,Captain Yale University Crew.To which Harvard replied...
WENDELL GOODWIN,Captain Harvard University Crew.SUMMARY.Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 18, 1874 - Fourth Regatta of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, - University Race for the Championship...
...Frank Rees, New York; S. of M.; age, 20; weight, 153 lbs.; height, 5 ft. 8 1/2 ft. Captain and stroke...
...Eustis, Hammond, N. Y.; class '74; age, 27; weight, 160 lbs.; height, 5 ft. 11 in. Stroke and captain...
...being disabled, now spurted; and, drawing up on the starboard side, managed to obtain a lead of some four or five feet, when the boats collided, and stopped rowing; the Yale stroke oar resting against the starboard waist outrigger of Harvard. The Harvard boat being thus held back, her captain ordered the starboard stroke to pull, which he did, and in so doing disabled the Yale rudder. After the boats had separated, Cook gave an order "Easy port, hard starboard," and at this time the Yale bow oar snapped, and Yale was out of the race. This foul took place...