Word: launching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Benson, former coach of the Cambridge crew of England, coached the University crew last Friday. As the launch was again broken down he was carried alongside in the junior shell by a crew composed of the University and Freshman substitutes, of a member of the '79 crew, and several...
...accustomed to each other. Then, after obtaining more uniformity by a few long pulls, they ought to be the fastest freshman crew that has met Columbia within the last four years. The crew rows every day at about six o'clock. Col, Bancroft coaches them from the steam launch, which enables him to get a better view of the men and gives the coxswain abundant opportunity of learning how to steer the shell and to coach...
...university launch. the "'67," was unable to follow the race today...
...only ones who will be allowed in the launch will be the referee, two time keepers, four judges and two officers of the boat club...
...former years there has always been more or less complaint about both on the part of referees and crews. Yesterday's trouble was only a repetition of this old rule. Today, we hope, will see the remedy. The managers of the boat club have placed the university steam launch, the "'67," at the disposal of the referee, and a better understanding between that officer and the crews is likely to result...