Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the initial quarter-mile sprint was over, the first crew, rowing 39 strokes to the minute, had overhauled the Junior boat and was gaining rapidly on the Ineligibles. From this point on, the race tightened, with all three boats stroking a steady 32-beat. In the closing half-mile straightaway, the Ineligibles failed to sprint in time to cover the determined rush started by Captain Watts and, had it not been for the clever steering of their coxswain, C. H. Pforzheimer '28, would have fallen more than a length behind. Open water still separated them from the Lawrence crew...
Coach Brown had originally scheduled the race to take place in the Charles River Basin but a brought time-trial experienced early in the afternoon by the first 150-pound crew of Coach C. S. Heard '25 convinced him that the lower course was unnavigable...
...Crew A--Stroke, John Watts '28; 7, Guy Murchie '29; 6, F. A. Clark '29; 5, W. G. Saltonstall '28; 4, C. E. Mason '30; 3, W. T. Emmett '29; 2, J. DeW. Hubbard '29; bow, L. W. Dickey '30; cox., L. L. Wadsworth...
Yesterday, and the day before, the two crews pulled up-stream. On Thursday, there were a series of short sprints, all of which the first crew won by a few feet. Yesterday, the two eights took the water at different times and, because of the race scheduled this afternoon, the workout was light...
Coach H.H. Haines of the Freshman crew has been spending the past few days giving his men individual instruction. It is, as yet, uncertain when he will have his first three shells race. The prospects for a strong first-year contingent this season are unusually good, a number of the candidates having had preparatory school rowing experience...