Word: cayuga
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cornell easily defeated Princeton and Yale over a two-mile course on Lake Cayuga Saturday afternoon in very choppy water. Princeton gave the winning eight a close rub for the first mile and for nearly a half-mile was in the lead while Yale trailed all the way, finishing five lengths behind Cornell and four behind Princeton. Cornell showed great endurance, finishing in good form in spite of using a powerful 38 stroke during the last half of the race, while Yale seemed more or less exhausted...
...Ithaca and the Stone School of Boston. Following this will be a race between the Freshman crew and the Cornell freshman crew. The last race will be between the University crew and the Cornell university crew. Both of the Cornell crews left immediately after their race on Lake Cayuga, Saturday and arrived here yesterday stopping at the Hotel Victoria in Boston. Winning by one length over Princeton and five lengths over Yale, Cornell will push the University eight to the limit. This morning the three visiting boats will have a long practice and go over the course of the race...
...University crews of Yale, Cornell and Princeton will meet on Lake Cayuga this afternoon which is Navy Day at Ithaca while Cornell and Yale will meet on the baseball diamond at the same time. The crew coaches all refuse to predict the outcome but Cornell seems to have the edge over the other two. This race will be the first real tryout for Yale's new rowing system. Yale is the lighter of the crews, the average weights for all three excluding coxswains being: Princeton, 174 3-8: Cornell 174; and Yale...
...Cornell University, junior and freshman eights were on the water on Thursday for the first time this season. The ice in the Cayuga inlet had to be dynamited to allow the crews enough room for good practice. Four of the men in the first boat rowed against Harvard last year, while three were members of the 1916 Freshman eight...
...University crew was defeated by Cornell in the two-mile race of Lake Cayuga on Saturday afternoon, by the distance of about six lengths. Severe as the defeat was, it was due not to poor rowing on the part of the University eight, but rather to the remarkable form and power displayed by the Cornell crew...