Word: crab
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...four-mile course in 21 minutes, 54 seconds, an improvement of 3 seconds over the University's last time. During the trial they were paced by the second and Freshman boats, each of which rowed two miles. The freshman boat lost three lengths when number 5 caught a crab, but made up the distance, finishing even...
Sixteen competitors started at Harvard Bridge with Withington leading. Nelson followed him closely and gained slowly. At the three-quarter mile mark he had drawn up abreast but caught a crab which checked him so badly that he crossed the line two lengths behind Withington. At the finish Nelson was less than a length ahead of C. W. Peabody '12. R. S. Parker '12, the winner of the race last year, finished a length behind Peabody...
...Harvard Bridge was passed, the second crew took the lead with the first Freshman second, and the second Freshman in the rear. About fifteen strokes from the finish, when the first Freshman crew was almost even with the second University boat, bow on the Freshman caught a crab and the rest of the men stopped until he got his oar again. The University eight finished first, while the second Freshman just managed to pass the first Freshman crew. All three eights rowed very well, though two of the second University crew's regular men, Strong and Metcalf, were at Annapolis...