Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 9, 1921.--Today was comparatively a day of rest for the University crews, for after the hard four-mile row yesterday the coaches decided to work on faults in form that had cropped up, rather than send the men through another gruelling practice. Coach Haines, therefore, took the first eight out for about four miles this morning and emphasized proportion at all beats, having Appleton vary the stroke from high to low and from low to high...
...seconds had a very lazy workout today but Coach Howe gave his men their second hard row since their arrival at Red Top. The yearlings were paced for a half mile this afternoon by a combination eight and finished a length and a quarter ahead with a record of two minutes and 35 seconds against the tide but with a favoring wind. The showing of the new combination crew is very satisfactory...
...this editorial is addressed to the oarsmen now at Red Top we take this opportunity to extend our best wishes to them and let them know that the University feels confident that the only man on Coach Corderry's crew to see the Harvard shell row a race will be the coxswain...
Both the University and Freshman eights have been practically picked as they will row against Yale and it is the intention of the coaches entering this last phase of the year's work to smooth, out and increase the speed of the crews as at present constituted rather than to attempt any new experiments...
Practice yesterday was light for both the University and Freshman squads. The University eights were given a rather short row to Harvard Bridge, Crew A showing considerable improvement since the Cornell race, and doing especially well at a low stroke. The second 1924 crew rowed together for the-last time while the first Freshmen were given a light work-out late in the afternoon