Word: oars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inside arm bent all the time and his outside arm bent most of the time. He does not swing straight, and wobbles every which way at the finish. His finish is hurried, and he is apt to rush down. He does not keep a firm grip on the oar, and is stiff and awkward. No. 2 is a little stiff. He wants to hold his oar firmly without changing his grasp, nor yet gripping the oar convulsively. He gets a weak finish and rows his elbows out from his side. He needs to get more pressure on his stretcher, especially...
...hard enough. He starts forward quickly on the recover, being the only man in the boat who does so. No. 7 is slow in starting forward, and does not use his shoulders well, fails to row them back hard enough, and gets a weak finish. No. 6 draws his oar in on too high a level, and does not finish hard enough. He does not swing straight, and goes back too far. No. 5 does not use his legs hard enough, and he is rather slow with his shoulders. He has no very marked faults and his great trouble...
Eighty-seven is now rowing as nearly as possible the same stroke that the university does, with an easy catch followed by a long, steady sweep of the oar into the body with ever increasing force, so that the hardest pressure on the oar is applied to the very end of the stroke, instead of at the beginning of the stroke as was the case two years...
...pull it, and not train to pull a thirty-eight stroke, because some winning crew or other pulled that stroke in 1776. In the 1885 race, Capt. Flanders was censured for setting his men a stroke beyond what they were accustomed to; but he did merely what any stroke oar would naturally do. That is, run up the stroke as high as his crew would follow, if he failed to discover the rival shell behind...
Davis, the Portland rigger and inventer, is having trouble with the leading colleges in regard to use of oar locks, which he claims are infringements of his patents...