Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...profit by the experience of recent years, inasmuch as the whole system of organization and management introduced by Storrow in 1885 was completely disregarded because the crews in the crews in the two succeeding years were defeated. The Yale and Columbia crews of 1886 beat Harvard after close races because they adopted, to a considerable extent, the same system and ideas that Storrow had taught Harvard the year before. Yale beat Harvard again last year because she still believed in and practised the same system, while Harvard seemed to have endeavored to forget as much of it as possible...
Davis, '91, who holds the Harvard bicycle record, won the mile "safety bicycle" race at the meeting of the Providence wheelmen, held at Providence last week...
...annual race between the Yale and Harvard University crews took place at New London on the 29th of June. Harvard was beaten by about twenty-one and one-half lengths, the Yale crew having covered the four miles in 20 minutes and 10 seconds, the Harvard eight in 21 minutes and 24 seconds. Yale's stroke averaged a little over 32 to the minute, while Harvard's was somewhat over 36. The make-up of the crews were as follows...
Herman Olrichs, of New York, was referee of the race. Messrs. Robert Cook and George Aidee were timers and judges for Yale and Messrs. R. C. Watson and Francis Peabody for Harvard...
Woodruff, of the Yale crew, is expected to be able to row again before the date of the race...