Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SINGLE-SCULL RACE.The three contestants for the single-scull championship - E. L. Philips, of Cornell, Ansley Wilcox, of Yale, and A. L. Devens, of Harvard - were called into position promptly at the close of the Freshman race, and got the word "Go" as the sun was sending his parting beams over the blue waters of the lake...
...race was not exciting. At the proper time Wilcox quickened his stroke and came in an easy winner, having made the two miles in 14 m. 8 3/4 s., Devens about two lengths behind him, with Phillips eight lengths to his rear...
UNIVERSITY RACE.As everybody knows, the great event of the week, the University race, was twice postponed on account of rough water, and the crowds which assembled on the afternoons of Thursday and Friday were somewhat thinned on the morning of Saturday the 18th. The boats came into position before their respective stake-boats, off Snake Hill, at a little before eleven o'clock, in the following order from the east or right-hand shore, looking down the course...
...this unfortunate arrangement is due the disastrous result of the race. Could Harvard and Yale have been separated by even a single place, it is probable a fair test of superiority might have been obtained. The four crews between whom the race really lay - Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan - soon after the start drew ahead, and the order named was that of the first mile and a half. Harvard had been steadily drawing up on Columbia, until, at the mile and a half point, she had lapped the Columbia boat. According to the account of our crew, Yale, who had meanwhile...
...Harvard vs. Yale, and Yale vs. Harvard. Harvard's claim disallowed, in accordance with Rule XIV.; Yale's claim not entertained, as Yale violated Rules VII. and VIII., under which the race was rowed...