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...London in 1889 Cornell won from Columbia and University of Pennsylvania. In this race. she established a world's record for one and one half miles in an eight-oar in six minutes and forty seconds. In 1890 the 'Varsity and Freshmen won all the intercollegiate races, and the next year the same thing occurred and a new world's record for three miles in an eight-oar 14 minutes 27 1-2 seconds was established. In 1892 the Cornell Freshmen won from Columbia and the 'Varsity from University of Pennsylvania...
Yesterday for the first time this year the 'varsity crew rowed on the river. Owing to the quantity of ice still floating in the stream the eight-oar shells were not taken out, but the pair-oars were used instead...
...probabilites of the Boston Athletic Association having an eight-oar crew during the coming season are very slight...
Harvard has been rowing a series of annual eight-oar shell races with Yale since 1876. The record won is a tie-each college having row six races. Prior to the eight-oar contests the record was 17 to 4 in favor of Harvard. Beginning with the annual series, Yale won in 1876 by eight lengths. The following three years Harvard's crew, with Bancroft as stroke and captain in '77 and '78, and with Trimble as captain in '79, won all the races. In 1880, Yale won, and also in 1881 by six seconds. Capt. Hammond...
Yesterday the 17th of June races were rowed over the Charles-River course. As early as half-past seven people began to collect on the Beacon-Street wall, and at half-past eight the first race was started. The programme announced eight, events, all of which took place. The last and most interesting contest was the eight-oar race, in which the Crescents, Bradfords and the Harvard 'Varsity competed...