Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Brown declared that the class crews have often felt that the crew selected to race Yale was really not the best eight. Men who have rowed in these class shells have suggested that the results of three prelinduary races should determine the choice of the crew to be sent to Derby. But even when this is done, Coach Brown said, the feeling of injustice is apt to remain, so it is probable that a committee from the class eights will meet with the coaches this year to choose the representative boat...
Five crews have been picked by Coach Brown to compose the University crew squad. These crews will row together until the river is free of ice, when eight men will be droped to squad...
Picking the first eight late in the season is an innovation of the new coaching regime, but one which Coach Brown has used successfully before. In former years a tentative, crew has usually been selected shortly after midyear examinations and often has remained practically intact for the entire season...
...race against Yale and Maryland, was only able to get third place. The team, composed of Captain E.C. Haggerty '27, A.H.O'Neil '28, W.C. Peet '28 and R.N., Ryan '28, put up a hard battle, but found the competition too fast. Maryland won the event in three minutes twenty-eight and four fifths seconds...
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