Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Columbia defeated Princeton and Pennsylvania in a triangular race over the one and three-quarters miles course on Carnegie Lake, Princeton, N. J., Saturday afternoon, thus winning possession of the Childs cup for one year. The Columbia crew took the lead at the start, and held it throughout the whole race. In the last quarter Princeton increased the stroke and drew up rapidly, but Columbia had sufficient reserve force to keep the lead. At the finish. three was no open water between the three boats. Although weather conditions were good, the time, 9m., 53s., was very poor being 23 seconds...
...most interesting article is one on Harvard's Captains by H. S. Ballou, Jr. The purpose of this article is to show what becomes of our University captains when they leave college. The author points out that 13 per cent. of the captains of University baseball, football, and crew prior to 1905 are mentioned in Who's Who. and that this is slightly higher than the number of Phi Beta Kappa members so recorded for the same period. The author modestly admits that this does not prove very much. It certainly lacks a good deal of proving that athletes generally...
...coaching launch which was recently purchased by the Harvard Rowing Committee through graduate subscription8 has so far proved to be very satisfactory. The boat, which was built by the Bath Marine Construction Company through the agency of A. P. Homer, of Boston, is especially designed for crew coaching, and fills a need which the coach has felt for several years. It is a V-bottomed boat, 30 feet by 5 feet, 6 inches, equipped with a four-cylinder 18-25 H. P. Sterling Engine of the latest type, including among other accessories a Bosch magneto and a rear starter...
...Maine, when the boat reached 20.6 miles per hour with two people aboard. Running at this speed the launch can be handled easily. The launch draws very little water, and the design is unique in that the boat does not leave a wake, sufficient to disturb an eight-oared crew, even when the launch is running at high speed. The bows flare out rather sharply over the surface of the water just above the waterline and give a quick rotary motion to the bow wash, casting the water under the boat, while the broad, almost flat-bottomed stern...
...They are both about 60 feet long, however, and though the "John Harvard" is much more easily handled than the "Veritas", they both draw so much water that they cannot be run in close to shore, and create so much wash that they cannot be run up alongside a crew...