Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 9, 1908.--All the crews here had comparatively light work today on account of the high wind that kept the water rough. In the morning both eights and the four-oared crews crossed the river and rowed slowly over the first mile of the course, keeping close under the lee of the opposite bank. Coach Wray followed the crews in his single scull...
...appeared on the river at 6 o'clock and went down to the Navy Yard and back in short stretches, a distance of about four miles. The rate of stroke was kept as low as 26 all the way, and considerable attention was paid to blade work in the rough water. The shell spaced well and as a whole the crew rowed in good form...
...have suffered at the hands of Cornell has been broken and a more decisive victory could not have been desired. The very unfortunate weather conditions were as unfavorable to one crew as to the other and it is a source of satisfaction to the rowing authorities to win in rough water and reverse last year's result, when Cornell won at Ithaca by a scant margin through better oarsmanship in a choppy...
...short time ago and, in fact, it was the worst Cornell crew that the University crew has ever rowed. However, it is more the manner in which the University crew rowed the race than the victory over their rivals that is gratifying. They showed great adaptability in the rough water, as well in the rigging of the boat as in their oarsmanship, and the physical condition of the men was all that could be desired...
...adapted to a head wind and rough water...