Word: eights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...triangular two-mile Freshman race will be rowed on the Hudson this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The following is the make-up of Harvard's eight: Stroke, Byrd; 7, Biddle; 6, Higginson; 5, Heath; 4, Tilton; 3, Glidden; 2, Brown; bow, Saltonstall; coxswain, Roch...
...safe to say that the decision of the Weld management to enter the Senior eight, which recently won the Metropolitan Regatta, in the National Regatta at Philadelphia will meet with the hearty approval and support of undergraduates. It cannot help being a kind of stimulus to rowing in the University for this crew to enter at Philadelphia and go through the experience of such an important regatta. In a way it will raise the standard of all the Weld crews, and it will tend to strengthen the Weld Boat Club as an independent rowing organization distinct from the University...
...excellent chance of winning, even from the best club crews in the country. A comparison of times also ranks the crew as one of the very first. Their most formidable rivals will be the crew of the N. Y. A. C., the Atlantas, and the Pennsylvania Barge Club's eight. The men will go to their quarters on the Schuylkill the last of July and will begin work under the direction of Donovan and Youngman, who will do all the coaching. The make-up will be the same as last Thursday, with Harding of the intermediate crew as substitute...
...Yale eight were prevented from taking their first practice on the Hudson yesterday morning as they arrived too late Sunday night to unpack their shells. The shells were taken ashore as early as practicable and were found to have sustained no injury during their transportation from New London. The morning was spent in rigging them and getting them ready for the afternoon practice...
...last event of the day was the Senior eight race in which the starters were the Millstreams, B. A. A., and Weld Boat Club. This promised to be the event of the afternoon, as the crews were known to be very evenly matched, although the chances were thought to favor...