Word: hitching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...said that, if Yale wins, it will be because or a better team and not of harder work. Captain Gaddis spoke of the parade yesterday afternoon and especially of the excellent treatment which the team has received from all concerned in its development. Everything has progressed without a hitch and throughout the season there has been perfect co-operation between team and coaches. The Yale freshmen outweigh Harvard, but speed and snap ought to overcome this disadvantage...
...year that the foolishness and childishness of the average undergraduate is in a healthier condition of restraint than ten, twenty or thirty years ago, and we are optimistic to the extent that we believe this state of affairs is being further developed all the time. There was not a hitch in the proceeding Friday night, for which the committee in charge as well as the Student Council deserve credit...
...Bowditch, who went to 7 in the second. Macomber was tried yesterday at stroke and Filley rowed at 6. Shuebruk and Smith have been moved to 4 and 2 respectively and Ober has gone to 2 in the second. The chief fault in the first crew was a slight hitch following the catch; otherwise the work was more spirited and satisfactory than it has been for several days...
...four-oared. Later, however, Swaim was again laid off and Hartwell took his place. This afternoon the crew rowed a mile at a 35 stroke in fairly good form. The men, however, were less steady on their stretchers than yesterday and the day before, and the hitch between strokes was more in evidence, even with due allowance for the generally higher stroke. The four-oared had a time row this afternoon and covered the two-mile course in 11 minutes and 50 seconds. The stroke was 32 for the first mile and a half and 34 for the last half...
...work today. This morning Coach Higginson devoted himself to the four-oared; but in the afternoon coached the eight on an eight-mile row in long stretches. Before the end of the work the crew was rowing in the best form it has shown so far. The hitch between strokes was less noticeable and the spacing much improved. This afternoon's work ended in a mile time row under favorable conditions, the time, 5m. 25s., being a slight improvement over that made for any mile in either of the previous four-mile rows...