Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second 150-pound oarsmen dropped a one-sided race to the powerful Browne and Nichols schoolboy eight by three lengths. The time for this event was six minutes and 11 seconds...
...close time-trial race on the Charles River Basin featured yesterday's practice for the two University crews. Coach E. J. Brown '96 turned his oarsmen downstream early in the afternoon for a limbering up pull over the mile and three quarters course preliminary to the regatta with Cornell and Tech on Saturday, and found conditions favorable enough for a handicap test...
...Junior University crew, granted a two-length lead at the temporary bridge, started off at a fast clip that kept it in front of the first eight, stroked by Captain John Watts '28, for a half-mile. At the Harvard Bridge, one of the Junior oarsmen caught a crab and the boat paced by James Lawrence '29 dropped three quarters of a length...
...oarsmen face the M. I. T. first year crew in the curtain raiser for the Harvard-Tech regatta at 4 o'clock this afternoon. It is the premiere for Coach H. H. Haines' men and will suffice to test the strength of what is reputed to be a very powerful Freshman combination...
Four Harvard crews will open their racing season on the Charles against their perennial rivals from Technology. The interests of rowing followers will center on these short-distance brushes which should prove the first fruits of the second season of Coach Brown's tutelage of the Harvard oarsmen. The Thames Victory over Yale last June was a tribute to Brown and to his assistants. In this year, an Olympic year, the repeated fulfillment of this promise will be gratifying...