Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oxford was weak. Grip had come upon her crew, afflicted man after man with grievous coughs, so that, on the day of the race, an oarsman who had been in training only seven days had to he substituted at bow. Cambridge was not strong. Her eight sturdy rowers pulled strongly, smoothly; but there was in that boat a weakness in which, Oxford thought, Fortune might insert a wedge. That weakness was A. G. Wansborough, stroke. Thrice in the preceding week he had "caught a crab...
Presently the Cambridge boat came by rowing prettily. Wansborough was smiling. The Oxford crew, spectators learned, had put ashore, water-logged.* Trying to steal a lead on Cambridge at the start, it had dared the wind, the rough water of midstream, been well-nigh swamped...
...rare that either crew defaults until its boat is actually sunk. In 1912, both boats sank, the race was rowed over again, Oxford...
...crew shell which is to come from England about the first of May and the Oxford boat which swamped in the Cambridge race Saturday are similar in line...
...Kane '23, who captained the 1923 University crew and rowed last year on the Oxford crew, said of the new boat, "There is no reason to fear for the new Harvard shell in rough water. It is narrow, but not so narrow as the one which found such difficult going on the Thames Saturday. It is modeled, rather, after the 1923 Oxford boat which weathered some very bad blows. I don't believe that the lines of the shell were completely responsible for the Oxford swamping. Watermanship and the outside the figured considerably...