Word: layback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members were shown another fundamental way to get up a rock--the layback, a rather novel way of lying back against the cliff while holding on to next to nothing, and hitching along like an inchworm...
...Poughkeepsie, Washington scored a clean sweep. Had Washington sent no crews at all, last week's Poughkeepsie Regatta would still have amounted to a demonstration of Washington's rowing supremacy. Every shell on the Hudson except Syracuse and Columbia used the Washington technique of a short "layback" and a swift catch. But none could flip the blades back faster than Washington's oarsmen, who concentrated their strength in the middle of the stroke, made most headway even in choppy water...
...Tigers and the Blue looked less smooth in their style of rowing, but they put plenty behind their oars, and despite the fact that the Princeton shell checked noticeably in the long layback, it pulled away from Cornell in the crucial sprint to the line...
...enough to make it a close one, for the Lion's style of rowing is the antithesis of that taught here by Tom Bolles. Under a system devised by Old dick 'Pop' Glendon, this Light Blue style involves the use of a slow recovery, a long reach, a long layback...
Rutgers crews row with the same shorter reach and layback that Bolles has introduced here, and reports say they space well, have clean blade work and in the Manhattan race they finished with a powerful sprint at 34 strokes to the minute. It will be an interesting race, but although we can't tell too much it doesn't appear that the Scariet boat can have much of a chance against a Crimson crew that starts easily, swings along with smooth powerful 32 and can spring up to 40 at the finish...