Word: perpendicularity
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Yesterday afternoon Dr. Sargent's new game was played for the first time in the Gymnasium. The game has not yet been named; it is very much like basket-ball except that more men can play, and the opening through which the ball must be put is perpendicular instead of horizontal. This gives a chance for defensive work which basket-ball does not give...
...regard to the actual rowing itself, the Englishman leans further back, and in finishing his stroke, is quite out of a perpendicular: he also brings his hands up to his chest before finishing his stroke and shooting out again. With us, on the contrary, the man ends his stroke while sitting up almost straight, just a very little out of the perpendicular and with his hands several inches from his chest. No matter how rapidly the English crew is rowing, the stroke must always be pulled through in exactly the same way. In this then, that the English crews...
...general faults of the crew as a whole are "settling after coming to the perpendicular" and "driving on the legs at the catch." The time is fairly good. Following are the weights and most apparent faults of the individual...
...strokes alike. He does not get his arms away quickly enough on recover, and does not swing straight over the keel. He rows hard and would be very effective if he were more regular. No. 4, F. Lynam, M. S., weight 167, works too hard, back of the perpendicular, which makes him settle at the finish and meet his oar. This also makes him slow in getting his arms away on the recover. He rows hard and conscientiously all the time. No. 3, N. Rantoul '92, weight 168, is slow at both ends of the stroke, and rows short...
...this way the power is applied during the first three-quarters off the stroke, when it does the most good. The bringing in of the arms to the body naturally comes last, and as the trunks of the men are brought back upright instead of crooked or past the perpendicular, the power exerted by the biceps is not great...