Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University 150-pound crew leaves Boston at 1.05 o'clock today for New Haven where it will encounter the 150-pound crews of Yale and Princeton in the only annual triangular athletic meeting of the three colleges. The oarsmen, a coxswain, Coach Spuhn, manager F. McC, Eaton '27, and a rigger will make the trip...
Matching stroke for stroke, the two eights swept down the course, with Captain Kelley's boat maintaining a slight lead. Although Pennsylvania for years has been noted for her sprinting crews, the Harvard eight equaled each Pennsylvania sprint, and at no time did the Philadelphia oarsmen assume the lead of more than a few feet...
...chances. The oar-lock of Reeve, rowing at seat six in the Quaker shell snapped off, resulting from what appeared to be a crab, and after a few strokes, he let his oar go overboard, attempting for the balance of the race to pass the beat to the oarsmen behind him, going forward and backward on his slide with each stroke...
...been so long since a University shell has sped first across the finish line that Saturday's victory brings with it unusual sweetness. Taken together with the very commendable results obtained by the Freshmen and junior University crews, it seems to inaugurate a real renaissance of Harvard rowing Crimson oarsmen no longer need to acknowledge their sport apologetically...
...Harvard oarsmen, however, should show the results of two year of consistent rowing policy. For some time past each unsuccessful season has meant a sudden shift in coaches, with results more discouraging as the inevitable consequence. With Coach Stevens as head of a new regime the 1921 varsity crews made a very favorable showing against the powerful Yale crews at New London Under the same system of instruction progress has been consistent. Graduates and undergraduates may rest assured that whatever the final outcome may be of this afternoon's bitter struggle, they can shout lustily at the end: "Well rowed...