Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Resolved, That no professional athletic, oarsman or ball-player shall be employed either for instruction or for practice in preparation for any intercollegiate contest...
...student's theory of individual training is entirely different. He chooses men who give promise as oarsmen, and limits their exercise to rowing, until they have the oarsman's round-shouldered stoop, and lean arm, and are fit for nothing else. He selects lads with strong legs and slight upper works, and keeps them at running or football kicking until they have the legs of Hercules under the arms and chest of a school girl. He picks out boys with strong arms and full chests, but slim legs, and puts them at dumbbells, or rings, or bars, or ladders, until...
...probable that the annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsman will this year be held on the Charles River course...
Hosmer, the oarsman, rowed 36 regattas this summer and was second to Hanlan every time...
Hanlan, the oarsman, proposes to live in Boston after his journey round the world...