Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...launch was within twenty feet of the overturned canoe, and J. S. Reed '10, candidate for managership of the crew, who was on board the launch, dived overboard and went to the rescue of the two men. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, who was also on board the launch, followed Reed to help him with the struggling men. One of the men was unable to swim, and was rescued just before he went down for the third time. Both men were taken on board the launch, and the canoe was towed to the boathouse...
...crew was about half a length behind the Newell, with the interscholastic crew third and Millstream fourth. The Newell then drew away and the schoolboys caught up with the Weld. Here the Weld coxswain fouled the interscholastic crew, and 7 in the Weld boat broke his oar and jumped overboard. The interscholastic crew crossed the line two lengths behind the Newell. The orders of the winning Harvard crews were as follows...
...lead. The Newell was even at the half mile, but at the bridge the Weld led again by half a length. By repeated spurts the Newell gradually gained, but about a hundred yards from the finish, Farley, number two in the Newell boat, broke his oar and jumped overboard. The Weld then won by half a length...