Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Junior crew has been seriously handicapped by the lack of steady coaching. The boat gets ahead of the oars, and in the endeavor to catch up the men jerk at the finish. There is also too much tendency to scramble forward and to be unsteady on the stretchers. With the possible exception of McDuffie, however, the men are all in excellent condition...
...Perkins, weight 160 1bs., is a promising man, but slow starting his legs down, does not follow stroke well and is inclined to shorten badly, also feathers too high and has a tendency to jerk in the arms and slump with his shoulders...
Perkins, 5, swings out to port on the swing up, and is apt to jerk in his arms at the finish. His watermanship is fair. Weight...
...general fault of the crew seems to be a tendency to rush the slide and jerk the arms. The men will go into the shell in a day or two and during the vacation will row in the morning and afternoon. Mayor Bancroft and Nelson Perkins coached on Saturday and the men rowed as follows: Stroke, Fennessy; No. 7, Blake; No. 6, L. Davis (capt.); No. 5, Waters; No. 4, Bullard; No. 3, Townsend; No. 2, F. Davis; bow, Purdon...
...Clips and is apt to break his arms too quickly and jerk at the finish...