Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prompt start of the rowing season which was made this year will enable the fall, regatta to be held about a week earlier than usual. The races will be of a very different character from heretofore. The distance for both the graded and Freshman crews will be one mile instead of a mile and seven-eighths, and a number of heats will be rowed, so that each graded crew may be tested against every other. The game arrangement will be made for the Freshman crews. A system of scoring by points will be arranged and the members of the graded...
...number of heats which will have to be rowed uccessitates spreading the races over several days. The regatta will probably be held during the week beginning November...
...many years the possibility of holding a rowing regatta in this country on the plan of the famous English "Henley" has been often discussed. Within the last few years the interest in rowing among college men and graduates has so rapidly increased that the time has come to take a new step in the organization of American rowing. The increased interest in rowing is shown by the enthusiastic support given by undergraduates to newly formed rowing clubs in many of the universities and by the success in many places of interscholastic rowing associations. From these sources have sprung a body...
This feeling in regard to the place of rowing as an amateur sport has now taken form in the organization of the "American Rowing Association," with plans frankly based on the English "Henley." The government is vested in a Board of Stewards who have entire control of the regatta. This plan of organization differs radically from that at present in vogue in other associations in this country; but it is believed that this form of government will do much to relieve the Board from politics and internal dissention. The members of this Board do not officially represent any university...
Owing to the rough water yesterday morning on the Charles, the Metropolitan Regatta could not be held and was postponed until Saturday...