Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...usual 14 oarsmen have been retained to remain at work till after the Easter vacation, which begins on April 10. Daily shake-ups in the boat are the rule, but during the Easter week's training three or four graduate coachers will spend all their time with the crew, and the candidates will be kept on the water a great part of the time...
...YORK, March 21. - Passage was engaged today to Southampton and return by the American Line steamers for the Cornell crew. The party will consist of 16 persons. The Ithaca oarsmen, with paper shells, will sail from New York on May 59, on the Paris, and at once proceed to Henley, where they will train for the grand challenge cup race, to be rowed on the Thames during the second week of July. In this event the American collegians will meet the best crews of England, France, and any other country that may aspire to the aquatic championship of the world...
...early reduced to a very small number. With the preliminary selection thus completed, the crew becomes a much more real thing than it has seemed during the constant shifting of places which has been necessary to determine the merits of the various candidates. Now that the few best oarsmen have been chosen, the interest of the University will follow them eagerly in their really serious work of developing an eight who can row together. We believe that there is every reason to be well satisfied with the progress which has been made so far, and to anticipate a continuation...
Yesterday the 'varsity crew practice consisted only in rowing 1000 strokes. Several graduates and ex-oarsmen watched the practice. Stevenson was again put at stroke and a number of other changes was made. The make-up was: Stroke, Stevenson; 7, Perkins; 6, Shepard; 5, Hollister; 4, Fennessy; 3, Manning; 2, Lewis; bow, Clark (Jennings...
...graduates, as a body, back Mr. Watson, the undergraduates must do the same. Entire confidence, one in the other, we in Mr. Watson and his methods, Mr. Watson in us and our skill as oarsmen, is necessary and must be had, that rowing may once more be established upon the sound basis where it stood when Mr. Watson was at the helm before...