Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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However, it can be emphatically stated that the athletic heart when subjected to the careful investigation of instruments of precision is usually shown to be a normal heart. A good proportion of the oarsmen examined had been told previously for one reason or another that they were suffering from athletic hearts; yet our investigation failed to confirm the presence of any abnormality that was not entirely consistent with a normal heart...
...that the board of stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association has decided that the fourth mile is injurious for young oarsmen Harvard and Yale stand alone as exponents of the deadly fourth mile. How long can they afford to ignore the judgment of the majority...
...coach gets to New Haven he will find that considerable work has been done. Every afternoon last week Assistant Coach Abbott had squad of men at work on the machine in the gymnasium, although there has been no regular call for candidates. There is a general stir among the oarsmen of Yale soon after the mid-winter term opens, and this year is no exception to the rule. Nickalls will start the regular work of the crew men immediately after the junior promenade, which will be held on February 6. Captain Cord Meyer is ready to start in when...
Pennsylvania oarsmen have ordered a new eight-oared shell from Davy, the boat builder of Cambridge. It will be of the swivel type and will embody a number of Coach Wright's own ideas. Last year Pennsylvania used the tholepin, but Wright has had more experience with the swivel, having been accustomed to this type of rigging when coaching the Argonaut Club of Canada. At present it is planned to let the oarsmen have two weeks practice on the Delaware before leaving for the final bit of training at Poughkeepsie. In this way Wright believes he will accustom...
...newspaper and find that Princeton --the exponent of the two mile race--has already called out its candidates for the eight, while Yale is not going to begin regular rowing practice until after the Prom. Two hours a day is the most that Yale requires of its oarsmen. If this amount of exercise were demanded all the year round I cannot see how it could have anything but a beneficial effect on an oarsman health and studies, and yet we only require it for four months...