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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whitman and Forbes played a remarkably steady game and several imes were within two or three points of winning the match. Ware and Scudder were erratic, but made a brilliant and successful finish. Ware went to pieces in the middle of the match, and hit continually into...
Harvard lost the fourth game with Princeton yesterday on Holmes Field, after as exciting a contest as is ever seen on the ball field. From start to finish the game was closely contested and abounded with brilliant plays, although the playing was very uncertain and errors were numerous among the Harvard men. The game in many respects was a repetition of the famous sixteeninning game which Princeton won here a few weeks ago, but it differed from the fact that yesterday Princeton held the lead from the start until Harvard tied the score in the sixth inning. Harvard played...
Cornell seems to have abandoned her old time stroke for a modified copy of the English one with a fairly long body swing. The slides are held until the body is slightly back of the perpendicular and then the stroke is finished with a powerful leg drive. The arms are but slightly broken at the finish and there is a tendency to drop out at the full reach. The blade work is excellent and the shell moves smoothly through the water...
...distinctive feature of Harvard's crew this year is the stand off the stretcher from catch to finish. It is an element of the stroke in which Harvard crews have been very deficient of late years. The body swing is very long. The leg drive beginning at the catch with the shoulders thrown on hard to gain a strong position. The pressure is increased through the stroke ending in a hard finish. There is no lift in the stroke as there was last year but a horizontal drive throughout. The hands are shot away quickly and the body swing taken...
...Garrett '99; coxswain, Clark '99-won the Weld Boat Club regatta yesterday afternoon. The course was with the tide from the Union Boat Club to the Harvard Bridge. Crew 3, which was next the wall, took the lead at the start and kept it to the finish, winning by about a length and a half. Crew 1 was second, with crew 2, which was one on the outside, some four lengths behind...