Word: crews
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are thirteen candidates for the Columbia University Crew. Most of the candidates rowed in last year's freshman boat...
...Yale Freshman Crew have elected Swayne permanent captain. The meeting of the candidates was addressed by Captain Woodruff in regard to rowing and training...
...those principles which, it is supposed, had won Harvard many a splendid victory. An entirely new system of rowing was inaugurated, and there was much grumbling and dubious head-shaking at the issue. Yale, on the contrary, was highly elated at Harvard's adoption of the "professional" stroke. Her crew, be it said, was deemed so strong as to earn the appellation of the "Yale giants," while Harvard's was not only unusually light, but, with two exceptions, was composed of men who had never before sat in a 'varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority who believed...
...committee of four graduates, only one of whom had rowed in recent years, was appointed to take charge of boating matters. Naturally enough they strove to inculcate in the crew those principles with which they were most familiar, viz., those which pertained to the English or Bancroft system of rowing. Despite the fact that the method introduced by Storrow had brought about the over-whelming defeat of the Yale giants in '85, despite the manifest adoption by Yale of the essential feature of this method, and her consequent successes and despite the marked improvement in the speed of the boat...
...present there are eighteen men in training for the Yale Freshman Crew and though they are all heavy they will have to do a good deal of hard work in order to make a particularly good showing on the water next spring...