Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletic season is over. The crew has come back from a victorious race against Yale; the University baseball and tennis teams have been humbled by the Elis, and thus the curtain falls on the first year of war-time sport. Looking back over the seasons, the University can hardly rejoice over its record. We have been unfortunate in every sport but rowing and we have plenty of cause for disappointment. But somehow the idea of sport solely for the sake of winning has disappeared; the mania for victory left us at the outbreak...
...University crew in its final race of the season, defeated the Yale eight on the Housatonic River Saturday, finishing two boat lengths ahead. Ten minutes and 56 seconds was their time for the two-mile course, as compared with 11 minutes and 11 seconds, that of Yale. Though there are no previous records for this new course, the time is regarded as fast...
...race did not start until the arrival of the crowd from the Yale-Harvard baseball game, so that it was 6.45 o'clock before the crews were started. For the first mile the race was close, with Yale holding a small lead despite the fact that the University crew was rowing a pace from two to four strokes higher than...
...order of the University crew will be the same as a month ago in the race with Princeton on Lake Carnegie, but several important shifts have been made in the list of Yale rowers. Price, who pulled No. 6 in the race with Pennsylvania, has been succeeded by Austin of the second crew, while Vail, No. 7, and Mead, No. 3, have exchanged seats...
...Blue's defeat at the hands of the Quaker oarsmen. This advantage, however, would seem to be balanced by the Crimson's lack of experienced men, none of the crew being veterans, in contrast to the Elis, who have three of last year's first boat entered in the race today, Hyatt, Mead and Vail. Statistics of the oarsmen show that the University outweighs the Eli eight pounds...