Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the closeness of last year's race and the rumoured disagreement of the judges, the provision for a single judge is a necessary if belated change. With it should go more care in the selection of the judge and his assistant than has always been the case. A close finish may occur at any time and it is better to be prepared for it before than to argue about it afterward...
Another important clause in the agreement is that providing for the continuance of the second eight-oared race. Although at first opposed by the University, this race seems to many desirable in that it gives more men a chance to row in the final contest...
...final agreement for the Yale boat races on the Thames River on June 24 and 25 have been made. The university eight-oared race is to be rowed upstream on Friday, June 25, at 4.30 o'clock. The start will be at the railroad bridge and the finish at the end of the four-mile course. The second university eight-oared race is also to be on Friday. The start is to be at the Navy Yard at 10.15 o'clock and the race will be rowed down-stream, finishing at the railroad bridge. The Freshman eight-oared race will...
...Freshman four-oared race is to be rowed on Thursday afternoon, the time and course to be settled by the two university captains. If it should be necessary to postpone the second or Freshman races they are to be rowed up-stream on Friday afternoon either before or after the university race, or on Saturday at the same time. If it is necessary to postpone the university race, it is to be rowed up-stream at any time before 6.30 o'clock on Friday agreed upon by the captains or on Saturday...
...agreement provides that instead of three judges as last year, all possibility of dispute will be eliminated by having one judge at the finish of the race, and one referee to follow the boats. Each will have an assistant to take his place in case of absence. If either crew in the university race is disabled by a bonafide accident during the first half-mile, the boats will be called back. Mr. Harry A. Fisher, graduate treasurer of athletics at Columbia, will be the judge at finish...