Word: crews
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Ataletic Committee last night, it was decided to allow the University second baseball team to play the Yale second baseball team in Cambridge on June 2, and to allow the Freshman crew to row in a race away from Cambridge...
Since last week the work of the University crew squad has been very varied. Except when the University crew raced the second last Tuesday, the two eights have been working independently. Tuesday was the only day a four-oar went...
...University crew has had hard and easy work on alternate days. Monday the men rowed down stream to Harvard bridge, returning to the University boat-house in easy stretches. Tuesday they gave the second crew two and a half lengths start and defeated it by a length and a half over the 1 and 7-8 miles course down stream from Longwood bridge to the Union Boat Club, covering the distance in 9 minutes and 40 seconds. This was slow time considering the favorable conditions. On Wednesday afternoon the crew rowed down stream again to within a quarter...
Yesterday the University eight was given a time row over the regular course, the last mile being a race with the first Freshman crew. Filley started the boat with an easy stroke of 28 to the minute, and held this pace until the boat came even with the Freshmen, who were waiting above Harvard bridge. Here the University eight took ten strokes at 32, but the Freshman crew rowing a point or two higher held its own. Below the bridge the Freshmen led by a half-length, which they soon increased to three quarters. At this point Filley again raised...
...University second crew defeated the Sophomores yesterday by three-quarters of a length in a very close race down stream, approximately from the Long-wood bridge to the Union Boat Club. The time, 9 minutes and 5 seconds, was 10 and 1-2 seconds better than the record over the regular 1 and 7-8 miles course, but cannot be counted as a new record, because the beats started about 60 yards below the line and diverged from the course so as to be materially assisted by a strong tide...