Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over a week the Yale oarsmen were deprived of the services of their famous mentor, owing to the death of Mrs. Leader. During his absence, Coaches Murphy and Moore took charge of the workouts, and it was under their observation that the first 1925 Eli crew rowed in a shell in the New Haven harbor...
Richard Pocock, the boat builder whom Coach Leader brought with him from Washington, and brother of the Seattle boat constructor from whom the Crimson shells were purchased, built a barge similar to the Leviathan, seating 16 oarsmen. The Eli barge has been christened the Cleopatra and while designed primarily for inexperienced candidates, it has been used frequently by the first squad with very satisfactory results...
...Lindley, stroke of Yale's brilliant eights of the past two years, returned to the rowing squad last Friday, and has been rowing at seat four in the second boat. Lindley was a substitute defense player on the championship Eli hockey sextet, and following the strenuous ice season he took a short rest before beginning the long training grind which will carry him through the Harvard race at New London on June...
Last year three oarsmen earned their letters by rowing in the first boat against Yale. They were taken up to the first squad by Coach Stevens following the class crew season, in which a victorious Crimson shell opened up five lengths of water in the race with the representative Eli class eight...
...Crimson line-up tomorrow night against the Blue in the final game of the season, is likely to be changed. McElroy's height will again give him the starting call at the tap-off job with Leekley starting at left forward. Captain Luman, at center for the Eli quintet, is the second highest scorer on the Yale team to date, and the Crimson substitutions will depend in large part on his playing. Leekley may be shifted to jump against him with Jones used at forward, or Rauh may get the assignment...