Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to cheat himself at solitaire." But last Saturday he made no shifts; it was Coach Stevens of Harvard who had to rearrange his boat when Barton, No. 3, sprained three vertebrae in his neck in a boathouse accident. Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood a length and a half ahead at the mile mark. The Harvard stroke got faster, the Harvard shell moved up, half...
...Derby. Yale, Penn, Columbia -they would finish in that order, prophets said. The Yale crew of course has acquired, in the last three years, a legend of invincibility; people thought that Penn had a good crew, but not good enough; Columbia was not in it. In a wash of golden light that would have been sunset if daylight-saving had not turned it into midafternoon, the boats moved out; Penn was in front, Yale next, Columbia last. A mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand...
Spurting past their Crimson rivals on the last half mile of the Henley course, the smoothly working Princeton 150-pound crew rowed to a big three championship last Saturday on the Charles. Yale a pre-race favorite was never in it after the first quarter mile and trailed both her adversaries to the finish...
...University combination is practically untested this year. No outside races have been held yet, the only ones the crew has engagd in having been informal brushes with the other 150-pound boats, and with the Freshman crews. Although all of last year's winning oarsmen are still in college, Coach Newell has made such a radical shakeup in his crews this spring that only three veterans will row against Yale and Princeton this afternoon...
...clock, an hour and a quarter before the 150's take the water, the Senior and Junior A crews will race to decide which shall go down to meet the winning Yale class crew. Junior A won the class championship Thursday by 4 feet over the Senior boat. Although the victory of the Juniors was not contested, the race was so close that another one was decided on in order that a more conclusive proof of superiority might be obtained...