Word: pull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edgerly, Read, Harrington and Foster. This week, during the absence of B. B. Thayer, Harrington is rowing with the crew. Only a brief mention can be made of individual faults. No. 1 invariably catches behind in consequence of an extra reach he endeavors to take; No. 2 does not pull his oar clear through to the end; No. 3 swings out badly, and feathers under water; No. 4 swings in, and faces his oar over too much; No. 5 uses his slide too soon; No. 6 sinks his oar at the finish; No. 7 rushes the end of the recover...
...last year's university crew. Other changes have been made in the personnel of the crew, so that eighty-six will have a stronger eight this year than last. As a crew, they have taken to the water very well. They are rowing a fast, lively stroke, and pull the heavy 'varsity barge with comparative ease. Their own barge, the bow of which was stoven in at the scratch races last fall, has not yet been repaired by the boat club. The members of the crew are now at a training table at Memorial...
...tendency to rush down and hurry the stroke. Yesterday they rowed thirty-eight strokes a minute in a heavy barge. No. 1 jams his hands down on the shoot, No. 2 takes too much water on the beginning; No. 3 has too violent a shoot; No. 4 don't pull his oar through to the finish; No. 5 settles; No. 6 has an imperfect finish; No. 7 swings back too far; stroke dips too deep at the beginning...
...appearance. They were: '88 team, E. A. Pease, J. R. Purdon, P. Chase and F. G. Balch (anchor); '87 team, W. S. Allen, J. S. Russell, F. Remington and T. Scott (anchor). Mr. Storrow, '85, manipulated the indicator ball ropes, and Mr. Morrison, '83, the referee started the pull at about half past six. The drop was almost exactly even. '87 was the first to get in any effective work, pulling the ribbon 1 1-2 inches away from the centre. This advantage they held until about the end of the third minute. Then, by the slipping back...
Gilman, '85, the anchor of the senior class tug-of-war team, has received an injury to his knee. It is feared that it will prove to be water on the knee, in which case he will be unable to pull on the team...