Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serving for several years as chairman of the Rowing Committee, and has been largely responsible for the recent successes of the University. Last summer, after the races at New London, Mr. Herrick went to England with the University second crew, which won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Regatta...
...from the University squad being organized into class crews which will follow a season of regular training and races. It is intended to make class and interdormitory rowing a distinctive feature of the season. While nothing definite has as yet been decided upon it is probable that a University regatta day will be scheduled, to consist of races of all kinds between eight-oars, four-oars, pairs, single shells, "comps" and wherries...
...Henley regatta, in which the University crew won the Grand Challenge Cup last summer, will not be held until the cessation of hostilities in Europe, according to the announcement of the stewards of the regatta. This series of rowing races is the most famous in the world, having been started in 1839. Up to the present time it has taken place every summer without an interruption...
...four-mile rowing course at Poughkeepsie has been sounded. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association, which is now composed of Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, is known to favor the shorter three-mile races, and although refusing to commit itself on the prospects of a change before the regatta next June, it is confidently expected that Cornell's renewed agitation will result in the change. Coach Courtney of Cornell and Coach Rice of Columbia are much in favor of the proposed shortening of the course, as they regard the four-mile contest too much of a strain. Coach Vivian Nickalls...
...event of the university contest being shortened to three miles there is a possibility that Princeton may enter the Poughkeepsie regatta. So far she has refused on the ground that she has had no opportunity to train for a four-mile race...