Word: crews
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been announced that the Yale crew will row a two-mile race with the University of Pennsylvania crew at Philadelphia on April 10. The Yale eight will spend ten days of the Easter vacation in Philadelphia practicing for the race...
...Columbia crew management has threatened to disband the university and freshman crews unless more men report for practice. Columbia would then be forced to withdraw from the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie and cancel the race scheduled to be rowed with the University crew on the Charles River on April...
This announcement was made after a conference with J. C. Rice, the coach. It was decided that any attempt to maintain a crew with the small number of men now practicing would be a useless expense and unfair to the students and graduates who have aided in paying the debt outstanding from last year and raising money for this year's crew...
...eight is the same, Coach Rice having threatened to withdraw their entry at Poughkeepsie if more men did not report for practice on the machines. Every effort is being made by those interested in the sport to get men out, for rowing is Columbia's chief sport, and the crew's prospects in the intercollegiate regatta have been constantly improving since Mr. Rice took the position as coach...
...custom of recent years, when the manager was chosen chiefly with reference to the amount of money collected. Possibly subscriptions are necessary for Freshman teams, but it has long been felt that they should be abolished as regards University athletics. With this move of the track management the crew will be the only one of the major teams left which derives its support in this way; and although we feel that the system should not be continued, the crew certainly has more claim upon it than any other sport because of large expenses and absence of gate receipts...