Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Regular rowing for the Freshman crews will commence next Monday, February 12, when candidates will be called out at Newell Boathouse at 3.45 o'clock. Candidates for the positions of manager and assistant manager of 1920 crew will report the same day at Newell at 3 o'clock...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...
About 15 or 20 men have been reporting daily for crew practice on the machines, and the voluntary rowing during the examination period, which was instituted for the first time this year, has met with success. A registering device has been fixed on two of the machines which shows a light at the catch and the finish of each stroke so that Coach Haines may better be able to watch the timing of the strokes. It is planned to put them on every machine as soon as possible if they prove as useful as it is hoped...
Princeton has sent the University an invitation to race the Tiger crew on Lake Carnegie during the spring recess. This event proved extremely successful last year, but no definite acceptance can be made until the matter is taken up by the Athletic Committee...
...machine in the gymnasium, although there has been no regular call for candidates. There is a general stir among the oarsmen of Yale soon after the mid-winter term opens, and this year is no exception to the rule. Nickalls will start the regular work of the crew men immediately after the junior promenade, which will be held on February 6. Captain Cord Meyer is ready to start in when the time arrived and Yale undergraduates hope for a better showing on the river next June that was made...