Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. J. Brown '96 leaves the choice of shells entirely up to his oarsmen, whatever may be their personal opinion. He feels that they will row better in a boat in which they have confidence...
...McKinlock Hall dormitory crew, which won the dormitory championship last week, defeated the Middlesex oarsmen by three lengths in a half mile tilt on the Charles yesterday afternoon. In this clash the dormitory eight lead from the start and displayed a brand of watermanship and rowing ability clearly superior to that of the schoolboys, covering the half mile in 2 minutes 43 1-5 seconds...
...race last week by which the McKinlock oarsmen wrested the championship from the other dormitory eights, they covered the three quarter mile course in 4 minutes 7 seconds. This is better time than is done usually by the University eights for the first three quarters of a mile in a two mile race...
...four lengths faster than the Sophomore eight and can always keep ahead of the University 150-pound crew. Neither of the latter crews is favored to win its race on Saturday, but the lightweights, untested save for a defeat at the hands of Kent School's powerful oarsmen, may give Yale, victor by a few feet over Tech last Saturday, a surprise. The Sophomore crew will have to show marked improvement to cross the line at the end of the West Boston Bridge ahead of the Blue 1928 shell
...able to amass only five runs off the offerings of Booth and Cutts. Yale turned the tables two days later on the waters of the Thames, entering a crew in the time honored four mile classic, which was strong enough to surpass the best efforts of Harvard's oarsmen by a good two lengths...