Word: crew
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...standardization of a rowing stroke at the University, and the use of this stroke not only by crew men here, but also by the preparatory schools from which the University's oarsmen are in the main recruited, is one of the most important features of the winter rowing system which has this year been instituted...
...University's crew coaching staff are in favor of the plan and a number of discussions of the values of the different strokes now in use have been held this fall. Dr. Paul Withington '09, who acted in an advisory capacity during the fall season, is one of the strongest backers of the change and bases his arguments on the advantages of the English oarsmen in the Inter-Allied race at Paris last spring because of the use of a stroke which is practically standard throughout the British Isles...
...attempt will be made this spring to introduce into the preparatory schools this new stroke for use during the coming seasons. As there are six crew "H" men in college representing six different school, it is probable that the brunt of this work of propaganda will fall on them...
More than 70 men are now reporting daily for the voluntary crew practice that is being held in the tank at Newell Boat House. No definite crews have been formed, and the men report as often as they wish to row for 20 minutes under the personal supervision of Coach Haines...
Candidates for the Freshman wrestling team who reported to Coach Anderson for the first practice of the year yesterday numbered over 40, many of them being men who had chosen crew or football during the fall. This large squad, though probably greater than in former years, due to the Compulsory Athletics for Freshmen ruling, offers a splendid opportunity for the management to run off a Freshman novice tournament, open to all men from 1923. This, if run, will probably start at the same time as the University Novice Tournament in the week previous to the Christmas vacation...