Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wind and tide were about neutral, although a light wind and tide favored the boat at first. On the following Friday, with a favoring wind and tide, the time was 21 minutes, 17 seconds. The record is 20 minutes, 10 seconds, made in 1888, but any crew which can row the distance in 21 minutes, 30 seconds, is making the average time row. A week ago the University crew covered the four miles in 21 minutes, 44 seconds, but although there was no tide, a head wind during the row makes time comparisons difficult...
...four oars were all given several racing starts in which they were so closely matched that it was impossible to pick a winner. A time row was expected until quite late in the evening when a sudden shift in the wind rendered conditions unfavorable...
...given by Coach Wray in the morning's workout to the quick turning and application of the power at the catch of the stroke. The eights went up past the Yale quarters and on the return showed slightly better form, there being little check between the strokes. A short row in the afternoon completed the practice for the eights...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 3, 1913. -- Another change was made in the order of the University eight this afternoon when Chanler went in at stroke, and Harwood went back to four where he displaced Meyer. In this order the crew was sent for a row over the four-mile course, starting at the rail-road bridge with a light favoring wind and also with the last of the flood tide in their favor. The first two and one-half miles were taken at an easy stroke, 28 to 30, but in the last mile and a half...
...Freshmen will not row today, but will probably rest until they go to New London. The University eight and four-oared crews will end their work on the Charles today by two practice sessions. The plans at present are to leave for Red Top on Monday, so as to start work on Tuesday morning...