Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard enough finish, and that they are very slow in starting forward. Then the time of all, except the stern men, might be improved on without harming anything. Of the crew that is rowing now, Adams, Hale, Purdon, Churchill, and Thomas have rowed in one or more races. Bancroft has never pulled in a race, but was second substitute at New London last spring. All the others...
Eighty-eight had a strong crew last year as a freshman class. They were handicapped some what by getting on the water later than most freshman crews, but as they were practically thrown out of the class races before the start by the breaking of their rudder, they had no chance to show what they could or could not do. By the end of June they had got into very good form, and beat the Columbia freshmen by nearly a minute. This year there are at present four men from '88 trying for the University, crew, Butler, Bradlee, and Porter...
Kohler of Pennsylvania, Hamilton of Yale, Rinton of Columbia and Dean of Harvard will contest the two-mile bicycle race at the Mott Haven games...
...rowing, Alexander, Fiske, Ayer, and Endicott have rowed for two years, Coolidge for one, and the others are all new men. Rantoul, who pulled in last year's race, is not rowing this year...
...were thus taken out of the boat, and one more had to give up rowing on account of sickness, leaving very few old men on the crew, yet they went to work with a will, and, as everyone must remember, defeated eighty-five in a very close and exciting race last spring; the other two classes not being in the race at all owing to accidents, though the result would without doubt have been the same in any case. This year they have been still further crippled by the loss of two more men, Russel and Remington; but in spite...