Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every winter for the last three years the question whether the Harvard freshmen shall row a race with the Yale freshmen has been discussed. The challenge sent from Yale a few days ago to the captain of the Harvard freshman crew brings this question once more before the college. The uncertainty as to whether three crews could row a fair race on the two-mile comse at New London, which has directed the policy of Harvard for the last two years, will have no influence on the question this winter, since the captain of the Yale crew refuses to row...
...boating committee of Yale University has sent a cablegram to the authorities at Cambridge, Eng., in which Yale declines to row a race with the Cambridge University crew...
...Yale is very anxious to row a race with an English crew. There was not a man in our boat last June after our race with Harvard who would not have gladly remained in training if a race could have been secured. Yale will begin official negotiations very shortly with Cambridge relative to arranging a race if it is possible to do so. One or two things, however, may prove rather considerable obstacles. In the first place, any idea of a race between Yale and Cambridge in April, as has been suggested by the newspapers, is out of the question...
...this is true, and I believe it to be true, the only time in which Yale can row an English crew is in July or August. We could not in any possible way, shape, or manner, get our crew into its best shape as early as April. Why, the ice doesn't break up in New Haven Harbor so that we can get on the water before the middle or end of March. It needs all the time that we can get, every hour of it, between April 1 and July 1, to get our crews into their best form...
...race between Cambridge and Yale University has been fixed approximately for April 15. President Snipe of the Yale navy and Captain Woodruff deny this positively. They say that Yale has not even challenged Cambridge. In spite of this assertion another dispatch announces that Oxford also will be ready to row Yale, and that the Cambridge crew is hard at work training...