Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would be inconsistent with the usual ordering of fate for one college to win all the victories that are to be won on land and river in one year. Cornell has the laurels of the Freshman race, and she had to work hard to get them. The men of '81 pulled a plucky and determined race, and showed themselves a more manly set of men than the unfavorable criticism of the college was, at one time, inclined to admit. The warnings that the Advocate urges upon the present Freshman class are wise and practical. It is useless to undertake...
...first quarter-mile Harvard was rowing 36 to the minute, and Yale was three lengths astern, pulling 33. Yale kept a slow stroke during the entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing...
...with the splashing stroke of the Yale crew, went up to 38 to the minute, and kept it up to the beginning of the last half-mile, when they slackened to 37, which was their rate when they crossed the line. The men from New Haven pulled a plucky race, and stuck to their work manfully, though they could not have had any hopes of winning after the first mile of the regatta. They came in 44 2/5 sec. behind the Harvard crew, but even then their time (21 min. 29 sec.) beats Yale's winning time at Springfield...
Harvard's time in the New London race (20 min. 44 8/5 sec.) is the best time made in the four University regattas with eight-oared shells. It would probably have been several seconds better if our crew had not caught their oars in the eelgrass near the start...
SUMMARY.New London, Conn. June 28, 1878. Third annual race of eight-oared University crews, four miles, straight away...