Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Deafening cheers for Harvard greeted this achievement. Bets of two to one were offered that she would not come in last, when an unlooked-for circumstance took place which eventually gave the victory to our College. When three fourths of a mile from the stake-boat, the Indian crew, spurting, overhauled the Chinamen, and through the carelessness of Jim-Jam, the bow-oar of Ah Sin, the two boats fouled; the boats which were closely following these two crews, in endeavoring to avoid a collision with them, fouled each other, and in an incredibly short space of time the course...
Yale and Wesleyan followed the example set by their swarthy rival, while Vassar now led all three by half a mile. Suddenly Heap-swearing Fox, stroke of the Indian crew, drew a tomahawk from his belt, and with an appalling yell buried it in the brain of the unfortunate...
Miss Susan B. A. Smith, stroke of the Vassar crew, fainted dead away; the Wesleyan crew ceased rowing, and initiated an impromptu prayer-meeting; while Ephraim G. Stubbs, livid with fright, set his crew a tremendous stroke, in order to put a safe distance between his woolly head and the tomahawk of the red-skin...
...Yale crew, which had been selected with especial reference to the decisions of the Judges, was stone-deaf, to a man; consequently the bloodcurdling yells of the savages had not the least effect upon it. Too near-sighted to observe the distress of Vassar, they were quick in noticing Harvard forge ahead, and, making a desperate spurt, soon lapped our crew...
...this juncture "the colored crew pulled nobly," seeing which, Bruiser, bow-oar of Yale, raised his oar, and brought it down upon the devoted head of Ephraim G. Stubbs with great violence...