Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WARtrial pulls were taking place. Seven teams were entered; Cornell. Columbia, Lafayette, Lehigh, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. In the first round Harvard was pitted against Cornell, who got the drop by two inches, because Easton had too short a rope. Harvard easily pulled it away, and when time was called the ribbon was 18 inches on Harvard's side of the scratch. The second round brought the Harvard team face to face with Yale who, having drawn a bye before, were perfectly fresh. Harvard won the drop by one inch and then heaved and obtained eight inches...
...each other. The seniors never lost this lead but kept increasing it to the finish. At the end of the first half-mile the seniors were leading, followed by '85, who had crossed over and taken '86's water, then '87 and '86. After this the juniors commenced to pull away from the '86 boat at every stroke. '86 was not rowing in her usual good form, but was slashing considerable. The freshmen, meanwhile, were steering a perfectly straight course for the boat-house and made no attempt to get under the shelter of the wall...
...seniors may take pride in having won a fair and square race. They rowed in beautiful form throughout. The juniors pulled a good race, also, but not within three minutes as fast as the best time pull they have made. They rowed strongly and well together, but were seemingly unable to keep up with the seniors with their boat half full of water. The freshman surprised everyone by the way in which they pulled. They are really a remarkably good freshman crew, and show the result of last winter's hard work and their faithful practice on the water...
...junior crew has made more improvement in the past two weeks than any of the other crews, due perhaps to the fact that there was more room for it. It is said that they were able to keep up with the university crew for a considerable distance in a pull the two crews took together last week...
...crew, it will be sufficient to quote Col. Bancroft's words : "The sophomores are still rowing in fine form ; in fact they are as pretty a sight to look at as any class that ever rowed on Charles river, and can be relied upon to pull a good race...