Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale will race the University of Pennsylvania at New London...
...freshmen also appeared, and rowed down through the lower bridge. They are doing very well, and with the practice which they will obtain at New London, should certainly give a good account of themselves in their race...
...hoped, however, that the custom will be kept up, as the interest in rowing among the undergraduates seems to need especial encouragement at this time of the year. To-morrow the crew leave for New London, where they will stay until July 2nd, the date of the Yale race...
Since that first race with Yale, in 1852, there has been a great many changes, as is but natural. Changes in the boats used, changes in the men's training, and changes in the distance rowed. The Oneida, which was the name of the Harvard boat used in '52, is described as being "thirty-seven feet long, lap-streak built, heavy, quite low in the water, with no sheer, and with a straight stern. The width was about three feet and a half in the widest part, and tapered gradually towards bow and stern. The boat had plain, flat wooden...
This year the crew which will represent Harvard is the same, with but one exception, as that which won the race last year. The men are now rowing as follows...