Word: crews
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...crews will line up for the start 90 feet apart from bow to stern, and the starting positions will be indicated by buoys, placed in the river at the proper intervals. Number one in each division will be farthest away from the bridge. A series of three shots will be fired for a starting signal. Between the first and second shots there will be two minutes, and between the second and third one minute. The third shot will be the signal for the start. Referees will be stationed along the shore, and bumps will be signalled, either through a megaphone...
...important that the coxswains study the chart of the river and observe the rules. All bumps must be made on the outside. Each crew must keep to the inside course in rounding a curve to give the crew behind a chance to bump. A crew that disregards this rule will be considered bumped...
...must report at the boathouses, dressed to row, at 3 o'clock. The first division will be started promptly at 3.15, and any crew not at its buoy by that time will be considered out of the race...
...progress of the University crew squad during the past week has been fairly satisfactory. Coach Wray has paid almost exclusive attention lately to the marked tendency of the crew to dip too deep on the catch, and to wash out at the finish of the stroke. Several changes in the make-up of the crew have been made. Sargent has taken E. Bacon's place at stroke, Bacon has gone to 6, Lunt to 4, Morgan to 3, and Faulkner to bow. It is too early as yet to tell what the ultimate result of the changes will...
...Fuller '00, who last year presented the Filley Cups, a perpetual challenge cup to be competed for each year, and a cup to be kept by the winning crew, has again offered a cup for the championship. The same regulations which governed the races last fall will be in force this year...