Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...changes were made in the two University crews at Lynn yesterday, and the boats went through an uneventful five-mile row down the harbor and back at a steady, low stroke. The shifts which Coach Haines made in the seating on Tuesday made an apparent improvement in the work of the first shell. It is expected that R. T. Young '17, who has been out for the past week with an attack of measles, will be back in his place at number two in the second eight today, but M. H. Allen '17, rowing in the fourth shell, took...
...third and fourth shells again went out on the narrow stretch of open water below Anderson Bridge on the Charles, and succeeded in getting some benefit out of a very limited practice row. All the remaining eights were kept on the machines and sent...
...return of Dr. Spaeth from a lecture tour of the West, crew work on Lake Carnegie has begun in earnest. In addition to the 50 freshmen, 40 university candidates are reporting daily for practice on the indoor machines, and it is expected that the men will be able to row on the lake before the end of the month. Coach Spaeth has as yet been unable to choose a permanent combination, but with five men from the eight which defeated the University, Yale, Pennsylvania, Columbia and the Navy last spring, his task is not a difficult...
Although the water was smooth considerable trouble was caused by the cold and before the crews returned from their one-mile row a light snow had started to fall. In spite of it, however, the fact that the boat club showers were out of order gave occasion to a few members of the squad to take a plunge...
...first eights will continue to row at Lynn until the ice on the Charles breaks up. If the present weather continues it is figured that the river will be open in a week. The ice is still about eight inches thick, however...