Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, starting with a victory over Vermont on April 6 by the score of 7-3. Fordham took advantage of some Blue misplays in the eight to pull out ahead in a pitchers' battle by the tally of 2-1. Four days later, however, Yale took the first of their series with Columbia 8-3, and on April 16, with Coxe on the mound caught the Pennsylvania nine off form and sent it down to a 4-2 defeat. Then came the worst set-back of the year for the New Haven men, for they ran up against the Holy...
...last half-mile of the morning practice, these two eights were raced, the yearlings holding a lower stroke and winning by a large margin. In the afternoon the 1924 and combination boats took a five-mile row at about 26. Special coaching was given to the leg drive and pull through...
This afternoon the two crews went downstream over the four-mile course against the wind and tide. University A settled down to a low stroke and let B pull out a half-length lead before the first mile was covered; but after that the positions remained unchanged until after the two-mile mark, when the first boat came up even. Pierson called for ten several times and Appleton and the men behind him responded well. The seconds fought hard and each time Appleton went as high as 30, Matthews put up his beat to 35. Both crews came in with...
...Freshmen had little chance to show what they could do but were able to pull away from the veteran crew when they raised their stroke...
...them into the lead, while Princeton and Harvard fought it out for second place. But the spurt did not come and Annapolis' far-heralded eight hold close to the Crimson and the Orange and Black. With a stroke a few beats higher than Harvard, the Princeton eight began to pull away. Eight powerful men, stroked by Leh, who was good enough to displace Captain Cresswell were rowing a shorter, laster, and less tiring strike than Annapolis and when the half-mile mark came the Orange and Black shell flashed across a few feet ahead of the Midshipmen. Perhaps one-fourth...