Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cornell Freshman crew pull seventeen miles every...
Watkins Glen. - This so-called "Grand Amateur Regatta" is now a matter of history, and the usual amount of fault-finding is going on over its body. As a test regatta it was undoubtedly rather a failure, although the crew that had been the favorite before the race won in each race; the failure consisting in the fact that not one of the crews which competed is now qualified to row as an amateur in England; indeed, Lee, the single-scull winner, has been under suspicion for some time in this country. The "Sewing-Machines," as they are called, proved...
...mettes. - The surprise of our English cousins on seeing this crew row would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage...
Cornell. - The Freshman eight are now rowing seventeen miles daily, and are being carefully coached. J. E. Read left the crew last week, but his place has been filled...
...race draws near, we are anxious to know something definite about the arrangements that are being made in New London for the convenience of the crew and the spectators...