Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomore class crew won the class championship in a three-cornered race on the Charles, River Basin yesterday afternoon. By defeating the Junior and Senior boats the 1929 oarsmen won the right to face the Yale championship class eight on the Charles a week from Saturday...
...yesterdays race the big Sophomore crew clearly demonstrated its strength. The Junior eight caught the water first and shot a few feet into the lead for the first quarter of a mile. The 1929 shell soon slid, ahead, however, while the Senior boat dropped slowly behind the other two. At the Harvard Bridge the Sophomores led by a length, with the Juniors the same distance ahead of the 1927 crew. Just beyond this point, however, the Sophomores pulled steadily away. The Seniors hung on to the Juniors' redder until the Henley, but then fell back. At the finish...
...crew shell was received yesterday by the University as a present from R. F. Herrick '90. It was made by Pocock the famous boat builder who has supplied shells for the victorious Washington State eights for a number of years past...
...Herrick, captained and stroked the University crew in 1889. Rowing against Yale at New London, however, his crew was beaten by a superior Ell eight...
...crew squad, remodelled by Coach E. J. Brown '96 in such a way as to form two nearly equal eights, took its first row following the Navy race on the Charles yesterday afternoon. John Watts '28, who stroked the University boat against the midshipmen last Saturday, has temporarily yielded his place to J. H. Perkins '27 and Captain Geoffrey Platt '27, who has been unable to row until recently due to illness, resumed his old place at number 5 on the University squad. Coupled with these shifts there was also an exchange of the how four oars in each boat...