Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...11/2 mile flag Columbia was over three lengths behind, and the gap between the two boats was widening at every stroke. The eel-grass certainly was having an effect which urged Harvard on to greater efforts. To those who have never seen the course, it may be of interest to know that it is not eel-grass itself that causes all the trouble. The grass does not get caught in the oars and clog the course of the boat, but it deadens the water, making the tide much weaker than it is in the west side in the channel...
...which used to retire Harvard without effort, fell a victim to the good play of our eleven this spring, while other clubs of almost equal strength were easily worsted. These successes are the more praiseworthy and satisfactory, since they come from a source quite unexpected and fill up the gap made by our defeat in track athletics...
...brought forward a plan whereby the 'Varsity nine may obtain more practice than it is getting at present. The idea is a good one and should not be left to moulder. The Junior nine has shown itself a strong team. Could it not step forward and fill the gap which is so marked. Its captain might organize a consolidated nine if the '88 men cannot be persuaded to play. Such practice would be invaluable to the 'Varsity. If defeat should finally result, it may be laid to the fact that such a team was not organized. We hope that...
...kind of an incentive for work, hard work and not fooling. Secondly, the 'varsity team will afford considerable practice, besides furnishing an innumerable number of "points," a great advantage to a raw eleven. Although the Yale eleven has had over a week's practice already, by steady application this gap will soon be overhauled...
...rowed out to the starting point at the Brookline bridge, - the 'varsity allowing their competitors four lengths. Both crews made good starts, '88 rowing about 34 strokes to the minute, and the 'varsity a trifle faster. As the boats came down the river the 'varsity gradually closed up the gap between them and '88, - at the Crescent Boat House there were but three lengths between them, and at the sluice way, scarcely two. Just below this point, at about three quarters of a mile from the finish, the '86 crew joined in the race, - starting just ahead of the 'varsity...