Word: race
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Arrangements for the Yale boat race, which will be rowed on the Thames on Thursday, July 1, have been completed. The four-oared race will be rowed at 10.30 o'clock from the head of the four-mile course down-stream to the Navy Yard. The Freshman race will be rowed immediately after the finish of the four-oared race, starting at the Navy Yard and finishing at the Bridge. The race between the University crews will start at 6 o'clock at the Bridge and will finish four miles up-stream...
...paddled up and down over the last half-mile of the course. But in the afternoon the University crew was sent over the four-mile course on time. The University and second fours paced by the Freshman four for the last mile, were timed in a race over the last two miles of the course, and the Freshman eight was given a time row over the same course...
Proctors Hutchinson and Rogers and Dr. W. E. Ladd '02 are with the crew at New London, and will stay until after the race. Dr. Ladd will have complete medical supervision of both squads...
...Freshman and Middlesex School four-oared crews rowed two races over a three-quarter mile course on the Charles River above the Stillman Infirmary yesterday afternoon. In the first race the Middlesex crew won from the Freshmen by one and a half lengths. The Middle sex crew got a lead at the start and held this advantage throughout; they rowed in almost perfect form and used fully as much power as the Freshmen though a considerably lighter crew. In the second race the Freshman second won by a length from the Middlesex second four, who were one half length ahead...
Early last week the second Freshman crew and the remainder of the squad were divided up into three four-oars, several different combinations being tried. The two fours stroked by Howell and Trumbull seem to be the fastest, and at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon they will race the first and second fours respectively of Middlesex School, Concord, over the half-mile course in the long stretch above the boathouse...