Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last Thursday's draw between '98 and '99 was played off yesterday afternoon in a very close and exciting game, which the freshmen won by the score of 12 to 10. The game was throughout an exhibition of good individual play, the team work being ragged on both sides. Of the two the freshman team played better together...
...game between ninety-seven and ninety-six which resulted last Friday in a draw was played off yesterday afternoon at four, on Soldiers Field...
...Freehand Draw...
...scratch crew made up of members of the Henley Club. In the Cornell boat were Matthews, Bentley, Roe, Freeborn, Shape, Hall, Louis, H. Hamilton(stroke). On the way down the Americans had the lead, but at the start, the boats were even. The Henley crew then immediately began to draw away, and were a quarter of a length ahead by the time they had pulled sixteen strokes, when they stopped rowing, having broken a rowlock string...
...mile. The boats were put about and the crews rowed from Bushey Gate to Henley Bridge against the stream. The Henley crew took a length's start, rowing 36 strokes to the minute. Cornell, pulling 46, overtook them in about two hundred yards, when Henley again began to draw away. The rowing of the Americans became ragged, but they soon steadied themselves, passing Henley, and were a length ahead upon reaching the bridge. The distance covered was over half a mile. Much surprise was expressed among the spectators that Cornell was unable to leave the scratch crew with greater ease...