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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer stroke of Coach Shaw enabled the Freshman to make up the distance--but the Seconds repeated their sprint and went into the lead again. These tactics won the race, every time the younger oarsmen came nearly even with his shell, Heard called, "Give her ten!". At the finish, with both crews putting their best into their sprints, the Seconds were pulling steadily away until they had increased the lead and showed three quarters of a length of open water. Peirce, rowing bow in the yearling boat, collapsed at the finish, so strenuous were his crews efforts to catch...
Groundkeeper Dennis Enright announced last night that there will be double finish tapes at the Olympic tryouts today and tomorrow in both the 400 metre and 800 metre events, one tape at the regular metre distances, and one--at the 440 and 880 yard marks, and that the time of the winner will be taken at both tapes although only the metre finish and the metre time will be official. The distance of 400 metres is approximately 2 1-2 yards short of a quarter mile and the 800 metres event measures 874 yards...
...went over the half-mile course this afternoon in what Coach Newell afterward described as an exhibition of rare form. Their time of two minutes and fifty seconds is easily a minute better than any crew before has done, and the strenuous pace told on the oarsmen at the finish when four of them keeled over...
This crew again went over the four-mile course this afternoon in an encouraging fashion. After rowing the first three miles and one-quarter at a stroke varying from 28 to 30 a minute, Winthrop increased the pace to 36. This he maintained to the finish line, the crew showing excellent form the entire distance. Time was taken but not announced. In the morning work-out the first and junior University eight raced, the former winning by a comfortable margin...
Yale's contention for the shorter distance may be explained by her defeat last year in which the crack University crew, stroked by motorboatman Loring raced across the half-mile finish line three lengths ahead (scoring like white men and not like the Crimson-Lampoon game) of the Eli boat after rowing at the low stroke of 44 throughout the entire distance. Yale's boat was stroked by Coach Murphy...