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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHILE the splendid victory of the Columbia crew in England is still fresh in the public mind, we would strongly urge the advisability of arranging a race between Harvard and one of the English Universities. We feel sure that the feeling of the college is strongly in favor of such a race, especially as the crew of this year will contain seven of the old oars of last year's boat. With such a crew there would be a good prospect of wiping out our former defeat by Oxford. The requisite funds to send an eight to England could doubtless...
Columbia. - The victory which this despised crew obtained at Henley is now a matter of history. But when we think of the auspices under which they went to England, - the papers crying them down, outsiders considering their expedition the height of folly, and even their own friends and college mates thinking them rash and foolhardy, - when we think of all this, our admiration for their pluck and determination is only equalled by the surprise and delight that was felt when they declined to accept the public reception tendered them by the city of New York, refusing to make a public...
...Spirit of the Times some weeks since proposed in a leading editorial to institute races at the National Regatta like those at Henley, and to call one the "Goodwin Cup," another the "Eldridge Cup." etc., etc., taking in the whole crew and the substitute in as many different races. As this was done in the leading editorial, it is presumable that it was not sarcasm, but sober earnest. It would seem, however, that such a proceeding would be as distasteful to the Columbia crew, as it would be ridiculous to the world at large...
Cornell won the toss, and chose the inside position. At four o'clock she pulled to the starting-point, and a few minutes later Harvard took her place. At 4:16 the word was given, the inside crew getting the word first and the advantage at the start. Cornell was pulling forty strokes to the minute, Harvard thirty-six. When a half-mile was finished Cornell was a little in advance, which lead was increased until a mile and a third, when half a length of open water separated the two boats. At a mile and three quarters, Brandegee increased...
When the two-mile buoy was reached the steady stroke of our crew began to have its effect, and when No. 6 in the Cornell boat actually went to pieces, all thought that Harvard was sure of the race. But Cornell, encouraged by the cheers of the crowds of her friends along the shore, rallied wonderfully soon to recover her lost lead. At the finish she was four lengths ahead, her time for the three miles being 17 min. 13 3/4 sec.; that of Harvard...