Word: captains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University crew started work last fall with the best of prospects. Captain Richardson was the only man lost by graduation and the fall rowing started with seven men who rowed against Yale last year. R. W. Cutler '11 at 6 was the only new man in the boat. When the spring season started late in February after the resignation of Captain Severance on account of illness, there were still six veterans on the crew. L. Withington, Jr., '11 having taken Severance's place at 5, the crew remained in this order until the sudden change of a week ago. With...
...poor prospects. Two members of last year's university eight, last year's substitutes, and the members of the freshman crew formed a nucleus for the 1909 crew. Until after the two-mile race with Pennsylvania, in which Yale was defeated, there was the problem of finding a stroke. Captain Howe was tried, but was found to be too heavy and slow for the position. After the race Wallis, who stroked Yale's winning university four last year, was put in at stroke, Howe returning to his old seat at 6. The other places were filed from members of last...
Elliott Carr Cutler '09, of Brookline, bow and captain, prepared for College at Volkmann School, where he rowed on the school crew for two years. In his Freshman and Sophomore years he went to Red Top as a substitute, and last year rowed two on the University crew in the Yale race. He is 20 years old, weighs 162 pounds, and is 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches in height...
George Pierce Metcalf, of Providence, R. I., captain and seven, prepared for College at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., where he rowed two years on his club crew and one year on the school crew. He is 19 years old, weighs 173 pounds, and is 6 feet, 1 1-2 inches in height...
...Howe '09, captain and six, of South Orange, N. J., prepared at Hotchkiss. He rowed on his freshman crew and for the last two years has rowed 6 on the university boat. He is 22 years old, 6 feet tall, and weighs 187 pounds...