Word: crews
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bacon, president, comes from Washington, D. C., and prepared at Groton. He played right guard on his Freshman football team and was captain and stroke of his Freshman crew...
...graded crew race between the first and second Weld and Newell crews, which was announced for next Friday, will be rowed tomorrow instead. All four crews will row in a single heat which will be started at 3.30 o'clock. The race will be rowed upstream over the one and seven-eights mile course in the basin, starting at the Union boathouse and finishing at the Longwood bridge. The members of the winning crew will, as in former years, be awarded their club insignia. In addition, the races will be closely watched by Coach Wray and Captain Richardson...
Yesterday afternoon a scrub crew tried out the new English shell, taking a 10 mile paddle up the river beyond the Watertown Arrenal. The members of the crew found difficulty in getting used to the thole-pin rowlocks and short slides which mark the rigging of an English as compared with an American boat. The shell rolled badly and the men failed to get together, so that the boat spaced poorly...
...last year's boat. The use of thole-pins instead of swivel-rowlocks is supposed to give a firmer catch at the beginning of the stroke, afford the men a support to press against on the swing forward, and provide a means of telling when the members of the crew shoot their hands away in unison. The bottom of the boat is broader and flatter than the ordinary American shell...
...crew was made up as follows: stroke, Sargent; 7, Richardson; 6, E. C. Bacon; 5, Rackemann; 4, Lunt; 3, Coach Wray; 2, Waide; bow, Fall; cox., King