Word: rice
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...YORK, May 8.--Coach Rice put the University crew through lighter practice than usual this afternoon, the men rowing up the Harlem for half a mile and then down to High Bridge. In a number of racing starts the first crew pulled ahead of the second and maintained their lead from High Bridge. The crews returned to the boathouse in several easy stretches...
...University team, although it contains only four men from last year's team, has had the advantage of a long southern trip, in which it met some of the strongest teams in the country. Since then the team has been practicing steadily under the direction of A. W. Rice 2L. and D. P. Penhallow '03, and under this coaching a strong team has been developed. The attack is fast and aggressive, and the defense although composed for the most part of new men has played consistently throughout the season...
...Columbia crew has undergone only one change since last Monday, and it seems probable that the present order will be maintained for the Harvard-Columbia crew race next Saturday. The single change mentioned is the replacing of Starbuck by Jordan at 2. Coach Rice seems to be fairly well satisfied with the form shown by the crew. The men have gained a mastery over his stroke and have eradicated their tendency to fall back into the old style of work...
Stroke, Boulton; 7, Ide; 6, Howe; 5, Taft; 4, Hoppin; 3, Rice; 2, Griswold; bow, Auchincloss...
Despite the proximity of the date of the Harvard-Columbia race, the composition of the Columbia university crew is in as unsettled a condition as that of the Harvard eight. Coach Rice has had his crew squad rowing since early in February, but the work on the water has been hampered to a large degree by inclement weather. Nevertheless, the practice of the three eights on the Columbia squad has been gradually made harder and harder as the season has progressed, and last week the coach started to "quicken up" his university crew in preparation for the race with Harvard...