Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Batchelder, Jr., '19; 3, E. S. Brewer '19; 2, W. C. Chanler '19; bow, S. Damon '21; coxswain, R. Durfee '19. J. N. Borland '21 will be first substitute for the first University eight. Besides the full quota of the first two University crews and the ten Freshman oarsmen, the management will send P. S. Howe '17, assistant graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., Charles Harte, in charge of repair work, Freeman and Mosher, engineers, and J. L. Mosle '20 to run the launches, of which two have already been shipped to Red Top. A third launch has been...
Yale's champion Junior crew went down in defeat on Saturday afternoon when the 1920 oarsmen led the Blue to the finish by more than 10 lengths over the Henley Course on New Haven Harbor. The University Juni0rs took the lead at the start and gained steadily; but Yale was put entirely out of the running by misfortune when, with Harvard four lengths to the good at the mile mark, Kent, at No. 6 in the Eli shell, broke his oar and added a spectacular touch to the event by jumping overboard...
After a period of jockeying for position which was prolonged by the effects of a fair tide, the two crews were started by Coach Mather Abbott of Yale at about 5 o'clock. The Crimson oarsmen jumped into a slight lead at the start, and then settled down to a steady stroke that drew them rapidly ahead of their opponents. At three quarters of a mile the University class crew led by two lengths, and increased this advantage quickly until at the mile point it had two more lengths of open water to its advantage. Here Kent broke...
...seven-eight's course on the Charles yesterday afternoon, the second Freshman crew defeated the first M. I. T. freshmen by one and half lengths. Up to the first mile, the race was very even, but towards the end, the 1922 boat established its lead which the Tech oarsmen were unable to overcome...
...feature of the Eliot-Thayer race was the breaking of No. 5's seat in the Thayer boat at a moment when that eight was taking the lead and seemed to have a first-rate chance for a victory. This handicap proved too much for the Thayer oarsmen and their opponents rapidly increased their lead to three lengths, which they held to the finish...