Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COLUMBIA has sent us another challenge for an eight-oared race. The time and place are left to our decision, as before. Last year our crew were able to do better in their race with Yale from having previously rowed with Columbia. Moreover, to pull in a single race is a small object for men to look forward to during a year's hard training; and so the more races a crew can row, the more pleasure there is for them individually. Here, then, are the two things which make a race with Columbia desirable, - improvement of our chances with...
...race would not be so close as the daily papers had led us to expect. On Friday afternoon the strong south-west-wind rendered the water too rough for shells, and the race was put off till the morrow. In the evening our crew took a short practice pull, and were all in excellent health and spirits. They anticipated a hard race and victory. The Yale men were well and jolly, except the redoubtable Cook, who was profoundly agitated because a neglected bed of weeds, opposite the city, had been buoyed, under the direction of Harvard, without consulting...
...reached that same half-length of clear water was still between the two boats. Now in the last mile Yale commenced a desperate struggle for the lead. They spurted again and again; but the oft-mentioned "beef" in the Harvard boat was still fresh and ready. The boys pulled hard and viciously, not a man distressed, and the stroke still at 33. The water was terribly rough, and made this hard rowing cruel work for the men; and the spray flew from the oars of both crews. Still those broad backs pound d steadily and viciously away...
...single-scull race, Messrs. Danforth and Goddard. Some other gentlemen wished to enter on Saturday morning, but were debarred by the books being closed the previous evening. There was a good deal of excitement when the two contestants passed the boat-house, on the way up; both were pulling hard and they were rowing pretty evenly, but Goddard soon got ahead, and on turning the stake-boat it was evident the race was his. Mr. Danforth did not pull over the course, leaving the race to Mr. Goddard, who rowed it in 6 minutes 11 1/2 seconds...
...stroke at present is too uneven. The jump at the beginning, which amounts to a jerk and causes the stroke to slacken in the middle, makes the middle and end inefficient; whereas an even, equable pull from beginning to end, well marked and defined at the beginning by getting the oar-blade instantly buried on the full reach, and pulled evenly clear through to the end, is more desirable. There is no use in banging the water on the full reach. Simply bury the oar-blade, instantly but lightly, throwing the weight and strength on quickly and without any hang...