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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rowing history may interest your readers. Sliding seats date back to a time which is, as college generations go, "immemorial antiquity;" but as any one may see from the pictures in the Newell boat-house or in R. C. Lehmann's "Oarsman," that antiquity is not much over four decades. From the position of back and knees in the older pictures, one may safely infer that the seats were fixed. A few months ago, Professor John Trowbridge, for many years Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, told me that, in the fall of 1871, he rowed in a 30-inch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sliding Seats. | 4/12/1912 | See Source »

...stroking the second university four, or Tucker, who is rowing at number four, should be put back into their old positions. Lowe is an entirely new man at the post of stroke and has yet to prove his fitness for the position. Captain Frost is the only veteran oarsman on the crew, as Van Sinderen, who rowed on the University eight last year and has stroked it a good deal this year, failed to keep his place and was dropped from the squad when it left New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crews Work Out at Gales Ferry | 6/6/1911 | See Source »

...building can show eight men of the same high ability as some one or two. Development in such a boat is uncertain. The graded crews by their very nature are composed of men of much the same calibre, and it is in such an eight that a developing oarsman comes to light. The pleasure of rowing is also more real and tangible when each man can do his own share of the work. Incidentally there are boat club insignia to be awarded. With these reasons in favor of the graded crews, their popularity should be assured, and the inconsistency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADED CREWS. | 11/8/1910 | See Source »

Although new to the starboard side of the boat, Captain Cutler is developing rapidly at 7, though his finish is as yet slightly awkward. Cutler is naturally a very adaptable oarsman and should be able to prove as valuable rowing some starboard oar as he has on the port side of the boat. Newton, Strong, and Metcalf, the other three veterans, have so far found no trouble in regaining last year's form, and the new men in the boat have done well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW DEVELOPING RAPIDLY | 10/8/1910 | See Source »

...corresponding number of the original squad cut yesterday. Thus 62 was the greatest number of men available for practice either day. There must be some reasons for such a pitiful showing: the only ones apparent are laziness and a misunderstanding of the necessary qualifications of an oarsman--height and weight. We will pass over the former with the remark that the class of 1913 is bidding fair to mar the excellent record which it has maintained so far. As to the latter, we can only reiterate the statement that no previous experience is necessary, and that many 'Varsity oarsmen never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE BENEFIT OF FRESHMEN. | 2/16/1910 | See Source »

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