Word: finished
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Metcalf has been rowing smoothly but has lacked life and dash and has particularly lacked a drive at the finish. The feature of his rowing is its smoothness...
...University crew has been very unsteady and there has been a lack of drive and snap both in the finish and at the catch. In the second crew, the men have not kept their eyes in the boat, which has made their rowing ragged. There was also, like in the University crew, a lack of drive in the finish. In the third boat, the men made a weak finish and were uncertain of their slides immediately before the catch...
...till Thursday, the boat did not go very well; the men made a weak finish and were uncertain on their slides immediately before their catch. Yesterday, however, the boat went better than it has so far this year. The crew rowed down to the New Bridge and back. On the return trip, the men rowed in fairly good form from the New Bridge to the Harvard Bridge but the rest of the way back the rowing fell off considerably...
...fault which Coach Wray has been trying to eliminate is the tendency of the men to swing down on the finish, thus causing the boat to pound heavily, Saturday the up-and-down motion was less noticeable than on former occasions...
...criticism of the men leads to a repetition of the same faults noticeable at the beginning of the season. Metcalf if inclined to be short, and does not finish with sufficient drive. Sargent still shows a tendency to be late on the recovery, but errs less in this respect on the port than on the starboard side. Cutler does not straighten his arms at the catch and is inclined to shorten his slide...