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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...search for a stroke oar with rhythm and stamina to set the pace for the University crew, the first selection by Coach Brown has settled upon B. J. Harrison '29 who pulled a No. 6 oar in he the first shell against Navy and Penn on the Severn last Saturday. Harrison is now taking the place of S. W. Swaim '31 is pace setter for the jayvee eight while I.H. Watts '31 is stroking the first crew...
Although the changes are now of a temporary nature and the whole search for the desired man is just beginning Harrison will be given several days at as is new position in order to give the oarsmen and Coach Brown a good opportunity to judge the relative merits of the new oar. Since one or two paddles over a long distance may be in order this week, Harrison will undoubtedly prove his worth within the next few days. He is tall, heavy, and possessed of a great deal of racing experience but whether or not he will shape...
Harvard has not defeated Yale on the New Haven track for 14 years, but Coach Farrell is not worried. He is not disturbed by the papers. He dopes his men to win; he figures what they must accomplish to do so; and he counts on their living up to expectations. His men are on the up-grade, but the bad weather of the past two days has interfered with the intensive training he had planned. Yale, on the other hand, reached the peak of its form last Saturday, and will not be hurt so much it this week's practice...
...Coach Sullivan's fast boatload of oarsmen will be greatly handicapped by the loss of their stroke man Donough Prince '31, who will be prevented from entering the race on account of an unavoidable engagement. The flying featherweights will be stroked by either Captain F. E. Farnsworth '29 who has been rowing at No. 6 all season, or by T. N. Perkins Jr. '31, No. 2 man. Perkins was in the stroke berth at the first of the season before Prince displaced him, and he is at present the most likely candidate for pacesetter on Saturday...
...Coach Davidson, who was in charge in the absence of Coach Mitchell, put W. H. MacHale '31 on the mound. The latter pitched good ball until the eighth, when four hits were bunched off him for two runs. Until this stanza, only one run was secured off his delivery, that in the opening inning when Carlsten, lead-off man for the Red and Blue, clouted a home...