Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 13, 1913.--When the University eight took the water this morning a change was made in the shell used. The boat built by Sims of Putney was substituted for that built by Ward in which the crew has been rowing since early this spring. Today the Freshmen used the Ward boat. This change in boats makes them more suitable to the weights of the two crews. The Ward boat formerly used by the University eight, which has a light bow, was observed to ride too far out of the water forward between strokes...
...recovery to be a slow glide out to a firm catch. For the last few days it has been the main object of the practice to get that subtle smooth recovery following a powerful closing stroke. Coach Wray is by no means satisfied at present with the crew's work on this point though the eight pulled steadily away from the Freshmen while rowing at a lower stroke. Meyer returned to the quarters today and will begin rowing again today...
This morning the three four-oared crews held a race, the two University fours going the full two miles, while the Freshmen dropped out at the end of the first mile. When they dropped out, they were on even terms with the first four, having gained this position by a sprint at a high stroke near the close of the mile. On the full distance, the first crew beat the second by a distance of about five lengths...
Valuable new athletic material should not be scarce at Harvard next fall, according to replies to inquiries sent by the CRIMSON to a number of the leading preparatory schools. The schools were requested to signify where the captains of the four major athletic teams--baseball, crew, football, and track--intended to go to college. Hockey was omitted, because at the time of sending the queries it had not been made a major sport at Harvard. Replies were received from twenty-four schools, nineteen private and five public, located for the most part in New England. The answers have been tabulated...
...will be seen that athletes of the schools questioned enter college next fall as follows: Harvard--ten baseball captains, six crew captains, 11 football captains, and five track captains, a total of 32 leading athletes; Yale--six baseball captains, no crew captains, three football captains, and three track captains, a total of 12 leading athletes; Dartmouth--one baseball captain, one crew captain, no football captains and three track captains, a total of five leading athletes; Princeton--two football captains only; Cornell--one baseball and one football captain; Brown and Chicago Art. Institute--one baseball captain each; Colby and University...