Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...urged that every one in the Freshman class who is able even to attempt to row report at the boat-house...
...candidates, including those who rowed during the fall, must obtain lockers and report dressed to row at the University boat house at 3.30: Newell men to E. E. Smith, Weld men to R. S. Francis. All candidates who were unable to be present at the meeting last night should report at the boat house at 3 o'clock. Every man must join the club to which he has been allotted. The allotment is as follows...
...happen you will say, and should not be considered. It has happened, however, more than once. It is a very difficult matter to prepare a crew so that all the men in it are in the best condition, because while it is very necessary for the men to row in the same places for a considerable time before the race, it is not best for all the men to do the same amount of work every day, so that a coach is constantly worried between what is best for certain individuals and what is best for the crew...
...four mile race, is obvious. If the race is to end at the three miles, the final desperate spurt will begin near two and a half miles, and it is this last spurt that takes it out of a crew. Besides this, a three mile crew will row a higher stroke all the way, at least two points higher, than the same crew for four miles, and a higher stroke uses a man up relatively much faster. A man who has rowed two and a half miles at thirty-five or thirty-six is not in very much better shape...
...course at Henley is only a little over a mile, but the eights that row there have not the time to train for a longer race, and the races have to be rowed in heats. Oxford and Cambridge, as has been mentioned, row considerably more than four miles. If our English friends can do it, I for one think the American college rowing men ought to have the stamina, and I believe they have it. To many people, it is a source of great humiliation that the Englishmen are so much superior to us Americans in contests involving endurance. Here...