Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faults of the crew on the whole are that they fail to get around the water on the catch, keep poor time, are slow with their hands, and in starting their slides, are inclined to rush the last part of their recover, and do not pull their blades through at the same depth...
After the short and much needed rest of the early part of the week, the candidates for the Mott Haven team have gone to work earnestly and with regularity. Although the spring meetings are far in the future and it will be a long pull until May, yet the men are training with a determination which cannot fail to develop some good athletes. All but five of last year's team are now attending college but the majority of the old men have not yet started to train, though the weight and hammer men are now practicing. The squad...
...crew as o whole is apt to be unsteady at both ends of the stroke. They catch hard, however, and pull the stroke through. The crew has been coached lately with special reference to the swing and body work but, attention will be paid to leg work at New London...
...Columbia from Princeton and Yale. The first pull was won by 10 inches and the second by 18. Yale and Princeton pulled for second place and the former won by 1 inch. The winning team was composed of Douglas captain; Robertson, Monks and Miller...
...reach, start his slide too soon on the stroke and not handle his oar clearly. 6 lifts the boat in the stroke, rows short and feathers very awkwardly. He rows smoothly and improves in some of his work. 5 is apt to be very unsteady. He feathers under water, pulls his arms in too hard and swings across the boat. He has improved. 4 is steadily improving, but still has a tendency to be slow with his body at the full reach and let his slide go too fast in the stroke. 3 does not sit in the middle...