Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appellation of the "Yale giants," while Harvard's was not only unusually light, but, with two exceptions, was composed of men who had never before sat in a 'varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority who believed in the new regime, up to a week before the race Yale's success was a foregone conclusion. The race, as one disappointed wearer of the blue expressed it, was a "procession." Yale, vulgarly speaking, carried the bucket. Harvard jumped into the lead the moment her oars struck the water, and though averaging about thirty-four strokes to the minute after...
...since '85, the crew of '88, we are told, endeavored to "unlearn the radically wrong principles" of the three previous years. The endeavor was pre-eminently successful, and what was the result? A crushing defeat, such as had never been seen upon the Thames. At one time in the race there was almost half a mile between the two crews. Yale, naturally enough, retained the principles, the efficacy of which she had tested, and gave even a better exhibition of rowing than the Harvard crew...
THERE will be a meeting of the H. B. C. Race-Meet committee Wednesday evening at 7.30 sharp in Matthews...
...number of candidates for the Yale crew is at present only eleven. The unsuccessful candidates have turned their attention to their respective class crews. On Monday the crew took its first meal at the training table, and from now up to the date of the race the men will keep in strict training. Of the eleven candidates only three rowed in last year's boat but Caldwell who is trying, rowed as stroke in '87. The names of the men are given below, the first four of whom have rowed in a 'Varsity boat before. Woodruff, '89, (captain); Hartwell...
DEAR SIR: The Yale freshman class hereby challenge the Columbia freshmen to a two-mile straightaway race, to be rowed at New London next June, the date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter. Yours respectfully...