Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bowdoin crew are training under the supervision of Fred Plaisted, the oarsman...
...committee of the amateur rowing association have defined a junior sculler as follows: "A junior sculler is one who has never pulled in a senior race, nor won a junior scull race; a junior oarsman is one who has never pulled an oar in a senior race, nor been a winning oarsman in a junior race; competitions with members of his own club will not affect the standing as a junior of any oarsman or sculler; the qualification of a junior oarsman or sculler shall relate to each time of his coming to the starting post, whether in a trial...
...certain to make a man develop a bad style. If any person doubts this, let him look at the River Thames on a Saturday afternoon. From Teddington to Wadsworth it is covered with boats, which are being rowed and sculled by persons exhibiting every possible fault that an oarsman can commit. The round back, the hanging head, the wriggling body, these are only a few of the hideous distortions observable on every side. How are they to be accounted for? Simply by this, that the wretched creatures who indulge in them are too proud to take a lesson...
...junior and freshmen crews will soon be forced to do likewise, and thus a foolish custom will be established. Rowing men will be obliged to neglect all studies during a month before the class races. Heretofore, rowing but once a day, it has been found more difficult for an oarsman to keep his place in his class than in his boat. When two rows a pay are taken, all study becomes an impossibility. Even if a man has a few hours for work in the evening, all his energy has been used up at the oar. To what purpose, then...
...crew, go back to the system I introduced and won easily both years. In the face of the fact, however, that nothing in the world but an excellent system had given them the prestige during those two years, Yale in 1882 and '83 employed M. F. Davis, a professional oarsman, to coach the men. Although the crew each year was physically superior to any that ever before sat in a boat, they were easily beaten by crews using the English stroke...