Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the past week the University crew squad has been reduced to 16 men and more attention has been given to the individual oarsmen than was possible before. The weather has been favorable and, except for the last two days, the river has been smooth...
Tonight at 6 o'clock the University team will leave on the Fall River boat for New York, where they will play Columbia tomorrow afternoon. Saturday afternoon they will play Haverford at Haverford. The following men will be taken: P. Brooks '09, C. Chadwick '10, H. Fish '10, P. Grant '08, F. R. Leland '10, D. V. Leland '10, R. S. Munroe '10, M. L. Newhall '08, C. C. Pell '08, H. M. Suckley '10, H. R. Waters...
...Saturday afternoon the second University crew defeated the third and fourth crews in a fast and exciting race on the Charles River. At the finish the second boat led the third by something less than half a length; the fourth boat was over a length behind the third. The time made was excellent, the course of nearly one and seven-eighths miles being covered in 9 minutes, 12 seconds. The record for the course is 9 minutes, 19 seconds; but as the crews on Saturday started a block nearer the finish than the full course requires, the time cannot...
...seventeen minutes past three, Captian Richardson fired the starting gun from the bow of the John Harvard. Each crew caught the water at the same time; the second boat held the Boston side of the river, the fourth the Cambridge side, with the third between. J. Cutler, stroking the third, at once brought his crew into the lead by a few yards, and the fourth dropped back behind the second by about the same distance; each crew was rowing 30 strokes to the minute. In this same relative position the first two crews swept under the Harvard Bridge...
During the past week no radical changes have been made in any of the crews. The first boat has been on the river every day, despite the bad weather, and has usually rowed to the basin and back, accompanied by Coach Wray in the John Harvard. Yesterday, owing to the absence of Faulkner, Coach Wray went in at bow. Morgan is still stroking, and Waid is at five...