Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thirteen crews showed up on Princeton's Lake Carnegie for the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges. But the only question up for argument was: Who will finish second to Yale? The answer was supplied by Harvard's stroke, Bob Lawrence, who caught a crab 200 yds. from the finish and was lofted into the lake. Without him, Harvard finished third behind Penn, while Yale, as expected, set a lake record for 2,000 meters: 5:54.4.
...varsity was three-quarters of a length behind the Elis and had over a length lead on Pennsylvania and Syracuse when Lawrence caught a reverse feather crab which knocked him out of the shell. Jim McClennen, rowing seven, led the crew for the closing stretch...
Then the Elis pulled out slightly. Penn and Syracuse were far behind the Crimson. The varsity shortened up on its slides and ran the stroke higher. It appeared to be gaining slightly, although certainly not enough to have caught the powerful Yale varsity. Then came the crab and a close win over Syracuse for third place...
...start of the race was staggered to compensate for a turn in the course, and the Crimson shell, in the outside lane was given a lead of a few seats. The varsity race had to be restarted when on the first attempt the Eli number seven man caught a crab within the first 30 seconds. On the start that followed, Princeton made up its handicap even though the Crimson pulled out at the fantastically high stroke of 48 for the first 15 strokes...
...Pennsylvania boat, which was slightly ahead of the Crimson for the first mile, finished the race with only seven oarsmen. Having less than half a mile to go, the number six man blacked out, caught a crab, and was thrown out of the boat...