Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown's Dave Fillipine "caught a crab," bouncing the flat part of his oar off the water and throwing the entire boat out of sync...
...favored Brown crew appeared unprepared for the conditions that Harvard captain Elijah White termed "biblical". Brown's two-man, Dave Fillipone, caught a crab, bouncing the flat part of the oar off the water. The crab turned an even race into one in which Harvard suddenly had a better part of a length lead, which the Crimson would extend even more...
...Fillipine] catch the crab out of thecorner of my eye," stroke Chris Dewing said. "Iyelled at [cox] Todd Kristol--who I knew couldn'tsee anything--'Let's go!' I think everyone justrealized all at once that we were suddenly ahead...
...crab might have accounted for one length,"White said. "But it was a catalyst. It was a sparkthat started our push. We kept moving throughoutthe body of the race, but the crab started it. Itwas the jolt...
...think their crab was worth 11seconds," Peterson said. "They might have lost alength, but not any more. They just lost theircomposure. They were a crew that hadn't been downbefore...