Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew, and has nothing to do with that question. For their action in this matter Harvard and Yale have reasons which seem to them sufficient, and neither their acceptance nor their refusal to accept the challenge would or could have any bearing on the ability of Cornell's oarsmen. If Swarthmore college, which never rowed a race, should challenge Yale and be refused, would that refusal be a written confession of the superiority of the Swarthmore eight...
...Cornell, claiming to have in her possession written acknowledgements of the superiority of her oarsmen over those of Yale and Harvard, will certainly not continue to browbeat her inferiors, and try to force a match race on the small boys of New Haven and Cambridge. Undoubtedly the superior oarsmen of Cornell will seek races with their equals if such can be found...
...will claim it. The 'championship of American colleges in boating' lapsed with the death of the National Rowing Association of American colleges in 1876, and as Cornell won that championship in 1875 and 1876, the title, if it has not died of old age, must still rest with her oarsmen. In making this statement we have not forgotten that an alleged intercollegiate rowing association held regattas in 1883 and 1884, received its death blow in an unseemly squabble on Lake Quinsigamond in 1885, and died of inanition during the summer of 1886. It would hardly be fair to dignify these...