Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thanks to the Crew and the Nine for the double victories they have won for the honor of Fair Harvard. We felt confident our Crew would win a victory at New London, but such a victory was considered hardly within the range of possibility. Complaints are made that the race was not close enough to be exciting, and that it is a pity Yale did not have a stronger crew. The race, to be sure, afforded little excitement to the average looker-on, but no one who regarded the consequences of the race could have been indifferent when watching...
...race there appeared in several newspapers a reported conversation that Captain Cook had with several members of the press. Besides laying claim to the honor of being the man who has done more for rowing in America than any one else, and besides declaring his ability to coach Morris, he informs the public, with singular modesty, that he is the man who gave Waters of Troy the model of an English eight-oared shell, and it is due to his magnanimity that Harvard is rowing at present in a shell made after that model...
...Blakie's shell, it did not split from stem to stern, but two years after it was built it was loaned to the Freshmen, who kicked a hole in the bottom of it. As for Keart, "the Yale factotum," about whom we heard so much before the race, he built a shell for the Yale crew, and it was so worthless that they never could use it, and it is now falling to pieces in a New Haven boat-house...
...HARVARD has crossed the line (time, 20 min. 44 3/5 sec.), Yale is expected every minute," was the telegram despatched from the finish to the start at the end of the fourth race of eight-oared University crews in America...
None but the Harvard scratch-races were ever known to take place on time. It is hardly surprising then that the crews in this regatta were not started until an hour after the appointed time. At five minutes past twelve the word was given, but the Yale men seemed to have perceived by intuition that it was coming, and got under way a second or two before Harvard. But our men were off the next instant, and made the smooth paper shell literally jump through the water. At the end of the sixth stroke they were fairly ahead of Yale...