Word: henley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spurting past their Crimson rivals on the last half mile of the Henley course, the smoothly working Princeton 150-pound crew rowed to a big three championship last Saturday on the Charles. Yale a pre-race favorite was never in it after the first quarter mile and trailed both her adversaries to the finish...
Both Tiger and Blue crews have lost to the strong M. I. T. lightweights, who are now waiting for their final test with the Crimson next Saturday. The University's chances for success against Tech and in the American Henley a week later seem to depend on the ability of the 150-pounders to distance their rivals this afternoon...
...next Thursday, an informal race will be held over the Henley Course of a mile and five-sixteenths. Two days later there will be a race over the full distance for second and third class crews. The regular race for the class championships, over the mile and three-quarter course, will...
...would be the biggest break for Harvard rowing in recent years," said Coach Stevens when asked about the measure yesterday afternoon. "It will enable us to have a good two-mile course, and an upstream Henley, course, which will be sheltered enough to row over at any time. It will also allow us to compare our crews with other American crews, which is impossible at present because we race over an odd distance...
Germans, being sturdy and efficient, are good at all sports in which method is more important than speed. They make excellent oarsmen. In 1905 the Atlanta Boat Club (U.S.) sent a four-oared shell to compete in a regatta at Hamburg. In 1914 a German shell raced in the Henley regatta. But not since that year, for various reasons, have the oarsmen of Hamburg pulled against those of the U.S. Last week the Hamburg Rowing Club sent its compliments to five U.S. colleges, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania, and invited them to come to Hamburg for the annual regatta...