Word: faster
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team has some bad defects and is especially weak behind the line. The quarter-backs have yet to learn to give good signals and to bunch their men. The half-backs must wake up, start sooner and run faster. The full back is one of the weakest positions on the team and unless some good kicker appears on Norton's soon the sophomores will...
...grace in the stroke and recover. They do not have much body swing, yet space very well. Yale's freshman crew seems much better than the Columbia freshmen, but it cannot be stated on the strength of one day's observation that they could row two miles much faster. It is not yet decided whether our freshmen are to row Columbia or Yale, although it will probably be Columbia. We wish to row on the 26th, the day before the 'varsity, while Columbia wishes to row early in the week or on Saturday, the day after the 'varsity race...
...crew has been making good improvement lately, and though they can hardly be called a fast crew, are by no means hopeless. They have been rowing from 32 to 36 strokes a minute lately, and in good water cover pretty good spaces. Whether they will prove faster than last year's crew or not depends upon the improvement they make...
...Harvard, on the other hand, made a quick recover, and the arms, bodies and slides looked as if they were thrown aft in a bunch, the blade being thrown quickly down to the water at the catch." In 1887 the same difference was observable, though Harvard had a much faster crew. The Yale crew had a longer "hang" of the oars before entering the water, a slower start of the shoulders on the recover and a weaker finish, but they kept their boat moving steadily while the Harvard boat stopped between the strokes. In 1888 the Yale crew was much...
...when she is ready and if she proves useful they will buy her. There has been a great rage lately among rowing men for boats with full lines fore and aft. Mr. Davy thinks this has been carried too far: the boats built four or five years ago were faster than the present ones...