Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Dobyns, at stroke, is ragged in his blade work and fails to keep the stroke as long as it should be, but rows a snappy oar and sets a good place. Dubois, 7, lacks life on the catch and tends to carry the feather too far. Millard, 6, tends to meet his oar at the finish of the stroke. Wood, 5, settles at the finish and tends to drop over at the full reach. McBurney (captain) 4, rolls his head, but rows long and smoothly. Butler, 3, rows around his oar and his time is poor. Richards, 2, is very...
...head. Coleman, 5, buries his oar too deep. Stoddard, 5, is late in getting his leg drive on. His body work is good. Bigelow, 3, has a tendency to catch with his arms, hunches his shoulders and rows around his oar. Burnham, 2, tends to clip and carries his feather too far. Huntington, bow, blade work and time poor. Rows in with his arms...
...continued improvement. The stroke has lengthened out; the swing and balance have become better; the grip at the beginning is firmer; and the work of the blades in the water is on the whole clean and strong, although there is still observable a tendency here and there to feather under water...
Duffield rushes his slide, does not take his feather off quickly enough and falls away from the finish...
...crew as a whole has a tendency to feather under water and to be slow on the shoot and the beginning of the recover...