Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SARATOGA, July 18.The Yale University Crew hereby challenges Harvard University to row a race under the regulations of the Regatta of 1874 at a time to be appointed within a week...
EDITORS MAGENTA, - In view of the new boating-system at Harvard, you asked me to write you what I know about college rowing here. The science of rowing, or, rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed...
...your stretcher, knees well apart, body down between them as much as possible, arms at their fullest extent, wrists depressed slightly so as to have the outside edge of the blade an inch above the water, and the inside edge resting on the surface. At the word "row," turn the oar barely more than square, raise the hands sharply, swing the body to the perpendicular, slide back (arms still rigid), swing slightly past the perpendicular and then bring the hands to the chest, high enough to keep the blade just covered, till the thumbs meet, while the elbows pass close...
...Cadet.WE learn from the Cornell Times, that the long-mooted question whether Cornell is to have a crew or not has been decided in the affirmative. "As now composed, the crew row as follows: Miss Thomas, '75, Miss Ladd, '75, Miss Tilden and Miss Bruce, '77, with Prof. Byerly (Harvard) as coxswain. The crew will practise every afternoon at the usual time...
...training in one or two crews, but this was due to ill-luck in forming the crew rather than a want of work. The Freshman crew especially labored under disadvantages, having lost one of its best men to go in the "University," and then, with several men unable to row from some reason or other, they could not present the six who did such hard work in the Gymnasium during the winter. Nevertheless, although discouraged, they pluckily did not give up, and answered the call for the race with a crew which had rowed together but a few times...