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Several changes were made yesterday in the orders of the University crews. As Flint, who has been at bow in the first eight, did not go out with the crew yesterday, his place was taken by Corlett from 7 in the second. Emmons, 5 in the second boat, was tried for part of the time at 3 in the first crew...
...Mark's team this year is especially strong, having won seven games out of eight, which makes the outcome of the game this afternoon very doubtful...
Yesterday the University eight was given a time row over the regular course, the last mile being a race with the first Freshman crew. Filley started the boat with an easy stroke of 28 to the minute, and held this pace until the boat came even with the Freshmen, who were waiting above Harvard bridge. Here the University eight took ten strokes at 32, but the Freshman crew rowing a point or two higher held its own. Below the bridge the Freshmen led by a half-length, which they soon increased to three quarters. At this point Filley again raised...
...direct result of a spirit like this, that after thirty odd years of football, the wall of the Trophy Room is plastered with only four footballs, and that the Harvard crew has trailed persistently behind the Yale eight at New London...
Last year Harvard was represented for the first time in the American Henley regatta. Then the 1908 Freshman crew which had previously won the class races won the race for second eight-oared crews and the University four-oar finished second in a race for four-oar shells. By entering the University second crew instead of a four-oar this year a strong eight-oar crew, in addition to the Freshmen, will be kept intact for the University eight to row against after the Cornell race. This will somewhat retard the selection of the University four-oar to race Yale...