Word: eight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman eight and four-oar also paddled about four miles each in the morning. Reece stroked the Freshman eight and Coach G. Clark 3L. stroked the four-oar as J. Cutler and Kemp are temporarily laid up. In the afternoon the Freshman eight rowed about two and a half miles and the four-oar about three miles...
GALES FERRY, Conn., June 15, 1906--The Yale university and freshman eights left the Yale quarters at 5 o'clock this afternoon and rowed down stream 1 and 1-2 miles. Weeks took Rockwell's place at bow in the university eight, Rockwell going to bow in the four-oar. Both crews kept a 30 to the minute stroke and there was no attempt at a race. In a half-mile brush between the university and freshman four-oars, the former won by a length...
...June 14, 1906--The University crew defeated the Freshman eight on the Thames this afternoon by a length and a quarter in a two-mile race down stream, covering the distance in 11 minutes, 2 2-5 seconds. The Freshmen caught the water first, but at the first half-mile flag the University boat had gained half a length. With a 32 stroke, this lead was increased to a length at the end of a mile. In the third half-mile the Freshmen were rowing 34 strokes to the minute, while the University crew, raising this by two points...
...last half mile, when Mulligan seemed to lose control of his oar. Severance, at 5, caught a crab about three-quarters of a mile from the finish, and Rackemann, at 3, jumped his slide in the spurt. A slight change was made in the make-up of the Freshman eight. Mulligan returned to number 4, from which position he was yesterday changed to 2 in the four-oar; Crandall was moved from 4 to 2, while Cutler was changed from 2 in the eight-oar to a corresponding position on the four. In the morning the work was a light...
...Yale university crew was sent out on the Thames yesterday at 6.30 o'clock, and covered the regular four-mile course in 23 minutes, 34 seconds. The Freshman eight also took the water at the same time, and for the first two miles of the course raced the university crew, winning by a length and a half. The Freshmen rowed a 29 stroke, while that of the university eight was 28. No announcement was made of the time of the four-oar, which was sent over a two-mile course. As the tide was going out, and a cross wind...