Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Springfield Club made the most generous offers possible. They will furnish a tug for the press, which is to follow the boats; they will erect a grand stand near the finish of the race; provide boat-houses for the crews; furnish prizes for the winners; and give a grand Regatta Ball, which they promise shall excel, in decorations and music, anything ever seen in Springfield. Every prospect for an exciting week is most encouraging. Every college reports a good crew in training. The Freshman Ball Tournament will last a week. The city will be crowded with students from twelve colleges...
...GEORGE S. SILSBEE, stroke of the Junior crew, recently had the misfortune to dislocate his arm, which accident rendered it necessary for him to withdraw for a time from College. It is very much to be regretted that he will be unable to fill his place in the crew when he returns. The Freshman crew have sustained a similar loss in A. B. Twombly, whose position in the boat was No. 3. It was not ascertained in precisely what part of his body he was injured, but it was supposed that a cord or tendon had been strained...
Rudolph alone of all the crew...
...those interested in the subject of rowing, and indeed to all those who are at all jealous of our national reputation, it may be agreeable to hear that, in the recent great University race in England, Mr. J. E. Peabody, an American, was in the winning crew. Had Mr. Peabody followed out his original intention of coming to Harvard, he would have been a most valuable member of our boating community. But fate decreed otherwise, and he went to our Mother University in England, where he has gained considerable reputation as a boating man, and is very favorably spoken...
...foot-ball players can be seen at almost any hour, hot and coatless, on the Common. Nor are their brethren of the oar a whit behind those who prefer taking their exercise on land to going down to the sea in shells. The University and all the class crews go out every day to try what months of Gymnasium work has done for their muscles. The members of the University are not yet decided upon, as it is too early in the season, but the crew will probably consist of Dana (stroke), Goodwin, Morse, Low, Bacon, Devens (bow). The Junior...