Word: flags
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Navy Yard to the rail-road bridge. In point of closeness the four-oared race was the best of the day. Both crews started at 36 to the minute, with Yale having a slight advantage, which was increased to almost a length by the time the half-mile flag was reached. On nearing the mile mark, where rough water was encountered, Harvard made her supreme effort, and soon after passing the mile flag went into the lead, rowing a clean 31 to Yale's desperate 34. Yale held on doggedly, but at the mile and one-half mark...
...stroke which was maintained for two miles. At the half-mile the lead was one-third of a length, and after the first mile had been passed Harvard was about two-thirds of a length ahead. From this point up to the two and one-half mile flag the race was a gruelling one and very exciting, Harvard's stroke never varying from 33, while Yale's was being continually broken by vain spurts. Just before reaching the half-way mark before the Navy Yard, Yale made a supreme effort to cut down Harvard's lead...
...stream a little beyond Cows Point and back, and the eight covered the same distance. Later in the afternoon it was much cooler; the crews went out at about 6 o'clock. The water was almost calm. The University eight took a row down-stream to the three-mile flag and back. A stroke of 28 was maintained all the way until the last stretch before the boathouse, when it was raised as high as 42. Although the slide work was poor at times the crew went very well, and on the row home the boat moved along especially smoothly...
...were regular. Although the wind still continued to blow hard and kick up rough water at the time for the evening row, the crews all had stiff work. The University eight in its new order paddled down-stream to about a quarter of a mile beyond the two-mile flag at the Navy Yard and back in easy stretches at a slow stroke. The water was so rough that the crew could not be given a good try out, but in view of the poor conditions the change seemed to work well and the boat spaced very well...
This morning all the crews except the second four took a short row near the bank of the west shore where the water was calm. The afternoon's practice was of a more serious nature. The University crew rowed down to the half-mile flag below the Navy Yard in one stretch, a distance of about two and one-half miles. The crew showed much improvement over yesterday's work and appears to be slowly emerging from last week's decided slump. The men were using their shoulders to better advantage at the finish, with the result that the boat...