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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday afternoon about 75 candidates reported for the various dormitory crews. This number is considerably less than last year, when over 100 men came out for the first days' work. Six eights were sent out from the Weld boathouse, but only two from the Newell. This state of affairs is discouraging to the crew management who have made special efforts to make fall rowing a success this year. The season is short, for the bumping races will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, October 18 and 19, dates less than two weeks distant. On Friday, October 20, a final scratch...
...bumping races has been shortened to two weeks, a change which should appeal to those who look at fall rowing merely as a source of healthful exercise, as well as to those who take part in it for the practice and experience to be obtained. The trouble with dormitory crews from a rowing standpoint is that men who really know something about rowing are in the same boats with the totally inexperienced. In the past these crews have worked for almost a month before the races, and then it was so late that there was naturally little enthusiasm in starting...
...offer of cups to the members of the winning crew in each grade, and the better chance for individual coaching should make fall rowing interesting to the participants, while the longer period of graded crew work should make it easier for the coaches to develop and pick out University material...
...Fall practice for University crew and baseball team, and University and Freshman association football teams begins...
Fall work for the University crew will begin this afternoon. Coach Wray will have charge of the squad, which consists of four eights, and will give them long practice rows for three of four weeks, followed by two weeks of hard work in preparation for the four mile handicap race to be held on November 15. In addition to this work, a considerable amount of rowing in double sculls, will be done in order to quicken up the men and eliminate individual faults. At the end of the season a race will be held between the members of the University...