Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wednesday the eights started off together from the Perkins Institute and pulled down to the bottom of the half mile stretch which is above the Newell Boathouse. The oarsmen kept up a steady beat of about 28 for the first two miles and raised it gradually to sprinting finish during most of the final half mile. The row took about 15 minutes and the first eight was about three quarters of a length ahead at the finish with P. H. Watts '31 rowing a slightly higher beat than Harrison of the Jayvees...
...oarsmen may have several paddles of about four miles between now and next Wednesday. They will be given a week on the last three days of next week prior to their departure for Red Cop on June...
Although the changes are now of a temporary nature and the whole search for the desired man is just beginning Harrison will be given several days at as is new position in order to give the oarsmen and Coach Brown a good opportunity to judge the relative merits of the new oar. Since one or two paddles over a long distance may be in order this week, Harrison will undoubtedly prove his worth within the next few days. He is tall, heavy, and possessed of a great deal of racing experience but whether or not he will shape...
Coach Sullivan's fast boatload of oarsmen will be greatly handicapped by the loss of their stroke man Donough Prince '31, who will be prevented from entering the race on account of an unavoidable engagement. The flying featherweights will be stroked by either Captain F. E. Farnsworth '29 who has been rowing at No. 6 all season, or by T. N. Perkins Jr. '31, No. 2 man. Perkins was in the stroke berth at the first of the season before Prince displaced him, and he is at present the most likely candidate for pacesetter on Saturday...
...Sophomore class crew rage was of quite another sort. Yale challenged nowhere but in the first half mile, after which the Ell oarsmen dropped back steadily, finishing five and half lengths in the van of the Crimson eight, which covered the mile and three quarters in 9 minutes 31 seconds...