Word: eight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very difficult now to forcast the prospects of the crew for next year. Of this year's University eight and fouroared the following men will graduate; Mcgrew, F. W. Foster, George, Wolcott, Hartwell Derby and Ayer, but of these Hartwell will return to the Law School and Ayer to the Medical School. Besides these two men and the others now in the university boats it is expected that all the men on the Freshmen crew will return to College
...University eight has been improving fairly steadily since its arrival at Red Top. Although a number of individual faults are still prominent, the crew as a whole is well together. Foster is inclined to be a little slow in the body at both ends of the stroke, but not enough so to cause any break between the bow and stern men. A good deal of practice with a very slow recover has developed in the men better control of slides than has been seen in most of the recent. University eights, but at a stroke much over thirty, especially when...
...boat, however, is the lack of united leg drive. The legs, from which come the real power of any crew, do not make the hard drive at the same time. In this respect some improvement has been shown during the last few days, and the final speed of the eight will depend largely upon how far this development can be continued...
...Yale eight, though upset by many recent changes in order, appears to be at present faster than the University crew,--at least, as far as can be judged from times rows under varying conditions. Inboard the men appear, as was the case with last year's Yale eight, to be not well together; but they have a very fast and easy shoot-away at the end of the stroke, which enables them to recover with little hindrance to the movement, of the shell. Outboard the blades are almost perfectly together...
Harvard University Eight--Stroke, McGrew; 7, Lawson; 6, Filley; 5, Duffy; 4, Foster; 3, George; 2, Wolcott; bow, Swaim; cox., Litchfield...