Word: regattas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...annual regatta of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association to be held at Poughkeepsie on June 21, the race for eight-oared university shells will be over a three-mine course. This announcement has been made by Charles Halsted Mapes of Columbia, chairman of the board of stewards, following an investigation as to the advisability of cutting one mile off the regular distance...
...practice on the Delaware before leaving for the final bit of training at Poughkeepsie. In this way Wright believes he will accustom the men to rough water. At Pennsylvania they attribute the poor showing of the Quaker crew to the fact that it encountered rough water during the intercollegiate regatta...
Besides the annual race with the University, Cornell's only other rowing events will be the triangular race with Yale and Princeton and the Poughkeepsie regatta. The four--veterans available in addition to Collyer are Brower, Cushing, Nerlus and Bacon, besides the coxswain, Kephard. Last year's second and freshman squads were composed of dependable material which should greatly strengthen the first crew...
...next June there will be at least four eights entered. All of the three large Western universities, California, Leland Stanford, Jr., and Washington, have signified their willingness to enter the Eastern classic if they succeed in winning the Western championship. Leland Stanford, Jr., took second place in the 1915 regatta, and Washington made a good showing on the Hudson a few years before...
Class crews will first be started and later an eight will be picked to enter the spring regatta annually held by the university crew management. Whether any outside races will be held is still a matter of doubt, but whatever events are scheduled will be short races as it is intended to make a gradual beginning of rowing at Technology...