Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four-mile race is a far safer thing to row for the man's general health and physical fitness than the distance of one mile and five-sixteenths. Heart trouble is generally traced to the shorter races and seldom to the longer races. Had I my way I would have no races under four miles for inter-university contests, as that is the only distance to bring out a true test of oarsmanship...
...University is not the only team which, after beginning to dream of winning streaks, has descended from the realm of the unbeaten. The Army nine had polished off five opponents in a row due largely to the astonishing offensive strength centered about French, the hard-hitting cadet outfielder, when Lafayette laid the West Pointers low, outhitting them in their own style of play. Yale and Penn have also slumped. The New Haven team, which really has the makings of an exceptionally strong nine this year, has uncovered a weakness with the stick when opposed by first-class pitching. This...
...week with the first performance of "Shawn Rhue", an Irish drama in four acts by William L. Murphy. The ups and downs and the honest, Industrious Donovan family progressed all too obviously; but how little that need detract from real melodrama! A large audience was captured to the last row in the second balcony by the Irish brogue, the flow of Irish wit, the good Irish names, and the triumph of Irish ingenuity. So enthusiastic did it become that numerous suggestions were offered the actors from the floor, a stentorian and not over complimentary mention of the Black and Tans...
...account of rough water on the Basin yesterday, Coach Haines took the University crews up-river and put them through a long hard row...
...alumni and undergraduate teams are extremely proud of the fact that they have been able to appeal to Harvard in such a way that it invites Yale for its Commencement baseball game and headliner football match, to Princeton for its similar selected dates, to Cornell for the invitation to row and play baseball at the annual Cornell Spring Alumni Day, to Dartmouth for an opportunity to play hockey against the Hanover college at its Winter Sport Carnival, and to Brown and Pennsylvania for dates of honor on the athletic schedules of these institutions. It has occurred to the Yale officials...