Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman eight is a fast one as it showed by defeating the Cornell Freshmen. Since coming to Red Top consistent improvement has been made. The Yale Freshmen have not been in competition this year but they appear to have a good crew...
...Yale Crew Has Made Strides...
This year as last the Yale crew has not had any races from which any definite deductions can be made. For the first part of the season the crew coach was W. A. Harriman but in May Messrs. Gold and Kirby came over from England and took charge. Harriman is a young man and rather inexperienced for such a responsible position. He succeeded, however, in grounding the men in the fundamentals of the stroke he had imported, although in many of the more minor details he was not so successful. The whole matter was taken in hand by the English...
...Both crews this year are under the weight average of several years past. The Yale crew is the best one on the Thames in the present college generation, but it is inexperienced, and has the precedent of a long string of Harvard victories to break. Harvard on the other hand was a decidedly inferior crew in the early part of the season as was indicated by the two defeats it suffered as above stated. However the eight has made immense strides since coming to Red Top. There has been this year considerable newspaper comment stating that Yale had a better...
...past year in athletics has been an exceptionally successful one. The baseball and crew seasons are of course not yet finished; but other Harvard teams have already brought home four intercollegiate championships, and two sectional championships. In football, hockey, cross-country, and soccer, Harvard teams were the undisputed title holders; the rifle team was the winner of the eastern division of the shooting league; and the lacrosse team the winner of the northern division in its league. The track team, although it lost to Yale by a narrow margin, defeated Cornell, and fell but three points short of winning...