Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June 20th, the rival crews were started. Harvard took the water first, rowing 41 strokes to the minute to Columbia's 34. In the first hundred yards Harvard opened clear water between the shells, and at the half mile flag Columbia was three lengths to the rear. In going to the mile flag the Harvard stroke dropped to 39, 38, and finally to 34, while Columbia hit up the stroke to 36, 37 and 38. At the mile and a half buoy Harvard was eight lengths to the good, and was rowing in splendid form, while Columbia had begun...
...COLUMBIA FRESHMAN RACE.At 11 a.m., June 25th, the Columbia and Harvard freshman crews were started over the two mile course at New London. Columbia got the better of the start, and increased the lead to half a length in the first fifty yards, rowing 38 strokes to Harvard's 40. This state of affairs was of but short duration, however, and before another hundred yards had been covered, the Harvard boat had been sent a length to the fore. The times at the half mile were, Harvard, 2m. 58s.,: Columbia, 3m. 9s. At the mile buoy both crews were bending...
...moment all was still; then, when it was seen that Harvard was going slowly to the front, a roar went up from the spectators on the train that must have been heard at the finish line. Both crews were pulling 40 strokes to the minute, yet at the half-mile stake the Yale men had fallen three lengths to the rear. This distance was covered by Harvard in 2m. 58s.; by Yale in 3m. 12s. Upon entering the second half-mile rough water was met, but the waves were not high enough to seriously incommode the oarsmen. At the mile...
...three and a half mile flag, which Harvard passed in 23m. 6s., the Cambridge boat had a lead of eighteen clear lengths. The whistles of the steamers anchored at the finish now began to add their mite to the general uproar, and soon afterwards the saluting guns from the yachts announced Harvard's grand victory. Harvard came over the line in 25m. 15 1-2s., twenty lengths in advance of Yale, who followed...
...heavier than ours; it has four old 'varsity oars, and three men of last year's victorious freshman crew. The stroke which Columbia rows is long and steady, with a sharp, quick recover. Their crew has been at New London since June 8, and has rowed over a four mile course twice daily...