Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...months after the annual race with the Cantabs, - and then if we lose this it would hardly pay you to come over and whip the vanquished. It is with regret, however, that we cannot take this opportunity of testing the prowess of your great "eight," for the majority of Englishmen are more than pleased to see these international contests. I have heard my cousin, who is now a Fellow, and was a Junior at Baliol ten years ago, say that your crew of '69 lacked only good form to equal the best of ours, and as your present boat seems...
...they are successful or unsuccessful in the Yale, Cornell, and Columbia regattas. It ought to be the aim of our crew to establish their reputation, before going to England, as the best American college oarsmen; if they fail in this, they are bound none the less to row the Englishmen for the honor of Fair Harvard...
...four and a four picked from the Harvard eight. It is noticeable that the suggestion has found favor mainly with those who are unfamiliar with Columbia's record at Springfield in '77, or those who did not witness the Harvard-Yale race at New London. Columbia has won from Englishmen on English waters the Visitors' Cup, and she has Harvard's hearty congratulation. If we wish to win an English cup, we must row with English, not American crews...
...their hands away from their bodies, in the recover, the men hurry the bodies forward: this makes the recover too quick. No part of the stroke is more difficult to acquire; it is one of the points in which English rowing differs from American, and is considered by Englishmen of great importance. Schwartz at present does the recover better than the rest of the men. No. 6 (W. M. Le Moyne) does not keep his back straight, "buckets," fails to get enough reach with his back, does not sit up well at the finish, at times goes back...
Prescott was there, and Putnam too, and so was Grandsir P., And Grandsir was a spunky man as any of the three. The redcoats, -that's the Englishmen, -observing what was done...