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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conn., June 14, 1914. A shift was made in the University eight Saturday morning, Murray going to seven and Soucy to three. The change appeared to benefit the crews considerably. Wray stroked the first boat for half a mile and got the men to rowing a harder finish. All the crews paddled three miles. The Freshman and second eights took a short swim at noon to cool off, the University waiting until after the evening rowing for their plunge...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 9, 1914. This morning's rowing was featured by a half-mile brush up-stream between the first and second University crews and the Freshman eight. The ebbing tide and a light northeast wind made conditions fairly fast. At the finish line, each boat over-lapped the other, coming in in the order named above. Two minutes and twenty seconds was the unofficial time...
...with the tide at the flood the first and second University boats lined up on the two-mile mark. The race was close and exciting throughout. At one time the first was nearly a length ahead, but the second cut the lead to a question of feet at the finish just off the float. The unofficial time for the race was 9.30. In the next race, the substitute or "gentlemen's" four, consisting of the two University subs., Busk and Herrick, and the two Freshman subs, Lovell and Baker, outstripped the Freshman four by a full length in one mile...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 2, 1914--This morning Coach Wray took the men out for individual instructions in the pair oar, paying particular attention to a firm catch and a steady pull through to the finish. Following this, all the crews went out for a four-mile paddle down-stream. The University crews rowed in their regular order, but there was a change in the Freshman eight. Higginson changed over from bow to 2, Young went from 2 to 4, forcing out Lovell, and Potter went from 3 to bow, Richardson going to 3. This afternoon...
...Freshman four rowed a close race with the Middlesex four Saturday morning winning only by one foot. The boats were even down the half-mile course, the Freshmen rowing a somewhat higher stroke than the schoolboys from start to finish. After this race the second Freshman boat defeated the Middlesex second crew by five lengths...