Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length win over the Naval Academy, gained their first victory in nine years of rowing competition with the crews from Annapolis. No changes have been made in the seating of the Cardinal and Gray eight and the predommance of Sophomores and Juniors with the exclusion of former first string oarsmen predicts that Tech's opponents will find the going rough...
...which to round into form before the race with the Engineers, who inaugurated their season on Saturday with a three length victory over the Navy eight on the Severn. This was the first Technology win over the Middles in nine years of racing and it portends that the Crimson oarsmen have no easy time ahead...
These three University crews will continue with the same seating with the exceptions of a continued exchanging of strokes in the races during the next week. Several oarsmen are expected to be elevated to the University squad before the spring vacation...
...propitious for the Junior and Senior eights since both trailed the combination crew as well as the 1931 oarsmen. The 1930 eight stroked by McKesson rowed at a lower beat than its four rivals and although it came up fast at the finish the prow of the shell did not get beyond the waist of the combination crew boat. The latter with H. W. Sturges '30 in the stroke position was materially aided by a one length handicap...
...Joan tried desperately to scoop him up, ran to the taffrail and scooped again, but the supercilious creature escaped. Over the side plunged six-year-old Joan in its wake, swam faster and faster from the schooner, while her father bellowed orders, and the mate lowered the dinghy. The oarsmen finally caught her, but not before she had captured the anemone and thrust it in her overalls pocket. Back on board, she was more distressed by her dead sea-horse than by the rope-end tanning administered by the captain. Mathematics she learned "helping" her father work out his navigation...