Word: inboard
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Dates: during 1896-1896
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...rowed in one of the old pairs which has been rigged with English locks and slides with no incline. Yesterday for the first time the men rowed with the new oars from Donahue which have been made like the English ones with narrow blades and greater leverage inboard...
Pennsylvania shows plainly the marks of her professional coaching. The crew has the appearance of having been coached more upon the basis of outboard than of inboard work. The body swing is fairly long fore and aft. The oars are rowed in and out of the water and the stroke looks rather labored. There has been lately a marked improvement in time and blade work...
Since the crew has been on the river the greater part of the coaching has been on the outboard work, but during the past two weeks more attention has been given to inboard work. The result has been that the crew looks much better in the shell than it did a month...
During the recess the 'Varsity Crew candidates have been out on the Charles twice a day either in pair oars under the eye of Faulkner, to get watermanship, or in the shell to get unity while Coach Mumford has given pointers on the inboard work. At present there are only 8 men with the crew, as Stillman has stopped rowing, but they will soon be joined by men from the class crews. Immediately after the class race on May 4th, a College Eight will be formed which will be chosen from the men on the three upper class crews. They...
...bury their oars by swinging on with the shoulders instead of raising the hands at the full reach. This brings the power at the beginning of the stroke instead of when the legs go on. They also rush their slides and the last part of the recover. Time inboard is fairly good, but outboard it is rather ragged. The crew will probably go on the river some time next week...