Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...naturally very rapid. There was not the trouble-some problem of finding a stroke, and the eight was apparently seated at the outset of the season in the exact order in which it would row Yale, almost four months from then. Up to the time of the Columbia race on April 17, the boat was moving very fast. The crew was remarkably well together for so early in the season, and Sargent still had his ability to row a high stroke and keep it for a long distance, or to raise or lower it at will without losing his rhythmic...
After this race the crew started more direct preparation for the four-mile race with Yale. Although the crew had been practicing a high stroke before the Columbia race, it now took longer rows and at a lower stroke. There was not much direct preparation at a high stroke for the two-mile race with Cornell on May 31. Although the men went to Ithaca confident in their strength, the crew had not shown the improvement it should have since the Columbia race, in spite of the fact that the men were even better together. This confidence either amounted...
Yale started the season with poor prospects. Two members of last year's university eight, last year's substitutes, and the members of the freshman crew formed a nucleus for the 1909 crew. Until after the two-mile race with Pennsylvania, in which Yale was defeated, there was the problem of finding a stroke. Captain Howe was tried, but was found to be too heavy and slow for the position. After the race Wallis, who stroked Yale's winning university four last year, was put in at stroke, Howe returning to his old seat at 6. The other places were...
...applications by members or graduates of the University for tickets for the observation train for the University and Freshman races at New London on July 1 must reach the H. A. A. Office before 5 o'clock this afternoon. The train for the University race will leave New London at 5.45 o'clock and the price of tickets is $2.50 each. The train will leave at 10.10 o'clock for the Freshman race, for which the price of tickets is $1 each...
...half miles. In the afternoon the freshman crew rowed down-stream two miles at a slow stroke, and the university eight was taken down to the railroad-bridge in the launch and rowed back in a single stretch. The two university and freshman four-oars rowed a half-mile race and the freshmen were given a start of a length. The freshmen came in second. No time was taken...