Word: fours
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 11m 1908.--The University crew had its first real work on the Thames this afternoon when a time trial was held over the four-mile course. After taking the shell down stream to the railroad bridge, the men climbed into their seats from the John Harvard and after one short stretch to limber up, turned and rowed to the line. Without any racing start the shell was carried up stream at the rate of 26 strokes to the minute. This gait was held till the crew reached the three-mile flag; there...
...University four-oared crew had light work in the morning, but in the afternoon rowed eight miles. The men went all the way down to the New London railroad bridge and back. This work helped them to become used to one another and to Cutler's stroke...
...morning the eight covered about one and a half miles, going easily, and in the afternoon went down stream two miles and back. In this boat numbers 3, 4, and 5 did not manage their slides well and the shell spaced poorly between strokes as a result. The Freshman four-oar rowed only a short distance in the morning but in the afternoon went nearly four miles accompanied by Coach Gill in his single scull...
University four-oar-Stroke, Cutler: 3, Withington; 2, Morgan; bow, Ellis; cox., King...
...Freshman four-oar-Stroke, Richardson; 3, Jowett; 2, Smith: bow, Reece: cox., Coach Gill...