Word: finish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last quarter of a mile was very exciting. About a hundred yards from the finish the first Weld again made a great effort, and, gaining steadily on the third Newell, was only beaten out by about two feet...
Fifty-eight men came out yesterday for the University cross country team. The run yesterday was rather longer than usual, but an easy pace was maintained throughout the four miles and the men were not permitted to break at the finish. The work of putting into shape the cross country course on Soldiers Field will begin today...
...Higginson, Jr., '00, will act as referee, and E. C. Storrow '89 and Mr. C. E. Courtney will be the timers. The judges at the finish have not yet been chosen...
...crews rowed over the mile and seven-eighths course, and were coached by Wray and D. D. L. McGrew '03. The Freshmen rowed well, considering the fact that this was their first row over the regular course, but the second graded was slow at the catch and finish and rather irregular in regard to time...
...Freshman crews at both clubs, besides sharing the faults of the graded crews in regard to the recover, show weakness in the stroke through the water. The Newell Freshmen are particularly weak at the finish. The Weld Freshmen are not only weak at the finish, but wash the oars out in the middle of the stroke; altogether they seem appreciably less advanced in development than their rivals at the Newell. The chief cause of their slow progress is the lazy irregularity of their work, although there seems to be added to this an unusual inability to master the rudiments...