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...consider this: it generally takes about three years to make a really good oarsman; to grind "form" into, his system so thoroughly that he will hold it under pressure of extreme exhaustion. How hard then to expect eight men to re-learn rowing in a year so thoroughly that they will not "crack", or have off days when they revert to their old rowing habits. The Freshmen have nothing to which to revert. As to the idea that it is "guts, not form" which we want, let me suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing...
George Saltonstall Mumford '87: Twenty Harvard Crews. An account, by an old Harvard oarsman, of the Harvard Crews between 1882 and 1901, with many illustrations and sidelights on the art of rowing in general...
...results of this test that Dr. Howe and the coaches will to a large extent base their selection of graded crews tomorrow. However, it has been intimated very strongly that the members of the losing boats will be placed under no handicap, and that each oarsman will receive equal consideration for a berth among the first Freshman eights. The principal object of the race this afternoon is to give the coaches a definite idea of the relative merits of the crews as units, as well as allowing the men a last opportunity of proving their individual capacities under race pressure...
Appleton stroked the University crew in the Yale race last spring having been pressed into service as stroke only two weeks before the eights left for Red Top. He led the crew admirably in its race but is superior as an oarsman in the bow of the shell. Two years ago he rowed at 3 in the Junior crew and in his Freshman year at bow on the yearling eight; it is more likely that he will all one of these positions than stroke this season...
...Ladd Jr. '23 are out for football, and Lawrence Terry, E.S. '22, is at present unable to row. To take the places of the men who have been lost are three members of the Second University eight, two members of the Combination crew, and one Freshman oarsman. The seating of the eight was as follows: stroke, E. S. Matthews '23; 7, G. M. Appleton '22; 6, H. S. Morgan '23; 5, L. B. McCagg '22; 4, J. D. Jameson '24; 3, S. A. Duncan '22; 2, R. C. Stoery '24; bow, J. A. Nickerson '22; cox., S. C. Badger...