Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen are the heaviest of the class crews. They do not get their legs into the stroke. There seems to be no life in the boat. They overreach badly. They do not keep a firm grip on their oars, and fail to get the benefit of the end of their stroke in consequence. Their time is bad. They are extremely careless and have had individual faults. The stroke which they have been practising is much too slow for a race. Mr. Hooper has been coaching the crew of late. Alexander, the stroke of the University boat, has also been giving...
...absolutely necessary to effective rowing. These essential qualities are, ability to sit up straight, which can only be acquired by constant care and exercise, also the power to keep the shoulders back firmly when the body is forward on the full reach. If an oarsman negligently allows himself to overreach, his hold upon the water when first dipping his oar will prove to be jerky, consequently destroying that uniform steady sweep which should characterize a Harvard crew. A firm, upright body is then the first thing our men should...
...full reach; three is inclined to bucket, and does n't swing straight; five fails in reach; six's hands trouble him on the catch; seven does n't shoot quick enough or hold his hands tight; and eight is apt to overreach. All sliver out, bucket badly, and lack rhythm in movement...