Word: keel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshmen, then hung for a minute and in the last 100 yards, going at almost forty strokes to the minute, gained again, finishing a little less than three-quarters of a length behind. In point of form, the University crew rowed well. Their boat rode more evenly on her keel for the first two miles than at any time previously this year, and even in the final spurt the men held together well. Farley kept his stroke long throughout and showed good endurance in raising the stroke in the last half-mile. The Freshmen also rowed well. They rowed...
...eights, coached by Wray from his single, rowed upstream for about 1 and 3-4 miles and back to the University boathouse in several easy stretches. Both boats went poorly, as was to be expected from so many changes. The University crew especially had difficulty in maintaining an even keel...
...keel has already been laid for the new University eight-oared shell now being built at Davy's boat shop. The boat will be built in accordance with Coach Wray's ideas, and will be somewhat longer and narrower than last year's shell. The length will be 61 feet, while the beam will be 23 inches...
...work of the Freshman crews has improved somewhat, but the first crew does not yet set on an even keel and the men are slow at the catch. The order has been kept, throughout, the same as last week. The second crew is far more ragged than the first, and at times rows poorly together...
...into first, second, and third eights and one four-oar. The work of the University second crew was not satisfactory yesterday, as was shown in their row down-stream below Harvard bridge and back. The men found difficulty in rowing together and in keeping the boat on an even keel. Furthermore, the work individually was ragged...