Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back movement. Eight years ago Harvard crews used to row with a bent back. In considering the advisability of a change during the captaincy of our late coach, it was argued that a straight back, and an active chest allowed free and easier breathing, an important consideration in a race of from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Further, it was thought that an "eight" composed of amateur college oarsmen could attain greater precision with a long steady hip movement than with an irregular back movement...
HOPEFUL COLUMBIA.-Our outlook for the race against Harvard next June is very promising. We have only lost two men from last year's 'Varsity crew, the other six remaining in college. Sixteen are candidates, of whom ten are now working in the gymnasium under Captain Meikleham, the other six will come in right after Christmas, and then it is expected that several more candidates will present themselves, both from the School of Medicine and from the Law School. The rowing machines will be put down directly after the Semi annual Examinations...
...boating; we still feel sure that the course of the faculty will be injurious for the present to our crew, and on that account we regret it. Recognizing, however, the fact that the good name of our University is dearer to all of us than success in any boat race ever can be, we decline to open a discussion which will only give publicity to the disgrace which befell Harvard in the races of last June...
June 26. Harvard-Yale boat race. Yale...
June 26. '87 Columbia, '87, boat race. Columbia...