Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no training for the oarsmen during the fall since the purpose of the rowing is for pleasure and individual instruction. There are no hard grinds with the possible exception of one or two long races at a low stroke during the last week of practise...
Fall crew will get away to a belated start tomorrow when Captain L. W. Dickey '30 addresses the assembled upperclass oarsmen in Newell Boathouse at 4 o'clock. The candidates for Freshman fall rowing will gather in Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock...
...marksmen were assembled to shoot in the annual National Rifle and Pistol Matches. With prizes worth $40,000 (it is the only sporting event supported by Congress), it is to marksmen what the Kentucky Derby is to turfmen, the Poughkeepsie Regatta to oarsmen...
...with blue tips on their oars did not pause to shake hands and take the Harvard men's shirts away from them, as is the custom, but kept rowing right on upstream and across to their boathouse and training quarters at Gales Ferry. When the Harvard oarsmen finally crossed the line they collapsed freely...
...those trailers, M. I. T. and Syracuse, and two of the supposed chief contenders, California and Cornell, were not even given a chance to trail. Instead, their shells sank and the 32 oarsmen were forced to dive into the rough-watered Hudson, to be picked up by Poughkeepsie police launches. And, as darkness annoyed the radio broadcasters, Junior Glendon's unbeaten Columbia crew shot first across the finish line, with Washington second...