Word: length
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...crew won the class races yesterday afternoon for the third consecutive time. The Juniors were second, one length behind the Seniors, followed at one third of a length by the Law School. The Sophomore Weld, a length behind the Law School, was a length ahead of the Sophomore Newell. Time, eleven minutes. Captain F. B. Allen of the Yale crew, and Richard Schweppe, manager, watched the race from the John Harvard...
...race of the second crews was won by the Newell by half a length of open water...
...Senior Newell won its race from the Weld by a length of open water. The Newell crew made a very poor start, but once under way drew rapidly ahead, and kept on increasing its lead to the finish...
...best race of the day was between the Junior eights, won by the Newell crew with a lead of three feet. The Newell went ahead at the start and drew gradually away until at the bridge it had a lead of a length. Evans then brought the Weld eight along with a number of spurts, and began to cut down the opponents' lead until the two crews were nearly even. On a succession of alternate spurts, the Newell crew won by the small margin given...
...Length over all, 51 feet; beam, 7 feet 9 inches; square stern; timbers and frames of selected white oak, planked with white cedar in two thicknesses, the inner layer 1-2 inch, outer planking 5-8 inch; copper-fastened and riveted through timbers; garboards and upper strake of white oak; stern and planksheer of selected teak; decks laid in narrow strips of white pine; coaming for cockpit of quartered oak. In the after end of the forward cockpit is a bulkhead, forward of the boller bulkhead, in which is placed the steering wheel, this space is the full width...