Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thorneycroft's the rough water bothered both crews and Cambridge had a shade the best of it, Oxford being barely a length ahead at this point. This was more than two-thirds of the distance, but the Cambridge partisans had not given up hope. From this point, however, Cambridge fell behind, and at Barnes's Bridge Oxford was three lengths ahead. From Barnes's Bridge to the ship Oxford maintained the lead, and won easily...
...regards intentional rough play the advisers express their conviction that nearly all the players on College teams desire to play in an honorable way, but that more effective legislation is needed for the detection and summary punishment of the exceptional player of a vicious or ungovernable temper, and to this end they recommend an additional umpire and an increase in the powers and responsibilities of all the officials. These changes, coupled with the influence of the present widespread and merited criticism of unfair play, it is believed, will put the game upon a truly sportsman like basis...
...varsity crew yesterday went out for the first time this year in the eightoared barge. The water was very rough and the crew remained out only long enough to enable the proper changes in the rigging to be made...
Captain Armstrong of the Yale crew has devised a pump by which the coxswain can bail out the shell in rough weather...
This bitterness the Faculty declares leads to rough play and threatens the integrity of amateur sport and therefore it is desirable that all games with the University of Pennsylvania be discontinued for the present. Mr. Bissell, when interviewed in regard to the communication, said the Faculty committee had acted in accordance with the position taken by the graduate advisory committee, which also advised that no games be played with Pennsylvania this year...