Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...offer the heartiest congratulations to the Freshmen on their victory in the class races. In the matter of form there was almost nothing to be desired, and this in itself is extraordinary in a freshman crew. The record that the oarsmen of Ninety-Nine made yesterday was a fine one and speaks well for the intercollegiate race in June...
Captain Treadway has selected the men who will enter in the Henley Regatta. There are, in all, twenty-two oarsmen and two coxswains. The men who are likely to represent Yale in the regatta are: Stroke, Langford; 7, Treadway, captain; 6, Longacre; 5, Bailey or Patterson; 4, J. Rogers; 3, Beard; 2, Brown, Marsh or Stephen; bow, D. Rodgers. The crew will be a heavy one as the average weight is at present 1771/2 pounds. At least three coaches will accompany the crew. They will probably be R. J. Cook, Dr. Hartwell and Dr. Bolton. A new paper shell...
Representative citizens of Poughkeepsie convened on Tuesday night to consider the matter of raising more money toward inducing the college oarsmen to row over their course on the Hudson. The meeting was called by the committee of the Apokeepsing Boat Club, which has the matter in hand. Subscriptions to the amount of $200 were at once promised. It is expected that the money needed will be raised...
With the work of yesterday afternoon the Columbia University oarsmen finished their first month in the long, hard training preparatory to their races in June next. Captain Prentice, who has done all the 'varsity coaching, and Albert Putnam '97, who has had complete charge of the freshmen, are well pleased at the showing made thus...
...country,- only last week an '88 man wrote from Western Pennsylvania; I have heard it discussed as a matter of course by students; I have had the complaint made privately by classmates from New York and elsemhere. If Mr. Pierce will turn to the opinions of leading oarsmen in the Graduates' Magazine for September, 1894 (Vol. III, pp. 30-36), and to Mr. Conant's article, "Are our Athletic Teams Representative?" (Vol. III, p. 330-35) he will see that this impression of favoritism did not originate with us the other day. Indeed, the letter following...