Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Secondly, does the crew that is behind at the third mile race usually lose? Yes, it does, but this is from the fact that the crew ahead at the third mile is greatly superior to the other crews. In all my 20 years of studying rowing I have never seen a crew which won a four mile race and was a length ahead at the third mile which was not superior in every way to the other crew or crews. This crew would have won just as easily if the race had been the shorter distance. Moreover I have seen...
...Lastly, as to the amount of time required for a four mile preparation. In this connection it is amusing to take up the newspaper and find that Princeton --the exponent of the two mile race--has already called out its candidates for the eight, while Yale is not going to begin regular rowing practice until after the Prom. Two hours a day is the most that Yale requires of its oarsmen. If this amount of exercise were demanded all the year round I cannot see how it could have anything but a beneficial effect on an oarsman health and studies...
Tiger Coach for Short Race...
...Spaeth, coach of the Princeton crew, is one of those opposed to the four mile race and he states his views as follow...
...Harvard-Yale and Poughkeepsie races were inaugurated in imitation of the Oxford-Cambridge race of somewhat over four miles on a fast current. We have at most of our rowing colleges, been for years rowing a distance which seems unsuited to our climatic conditions, our natural physiological temperament, and to the local conditions prevailing at most of our rowing colleges, merely because under entirely different circumstances, Englishmen have developed a four-mile tradition...