Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale Training Quarters, Gales Ferry, Conn., June 14, 1911.--The Yale crew was sent over the full four-mile course this afternoon. The stroke was kept low and no attempt was made to reach racing speed. The time given out was 23 minutes, 38 seconds. After the row the men were taken back to their quarters in the launch Elihu Yale. The conditions were perfect. A change was made in the university four-oared crew today; Howe was put in at stroke, Appleton going back to 2, displacing Buckingham, whose condition is not up to standard...
...eights were sent out for a short row together with the second University four. Both crews went down to the Navy Yard in easy stretches, raising the stroke slightly on the last quartermile back to the boat-house. The University crew was a trifle unsteady going down-stream but soon got together and at the quickened stroke went strongly, spacing out well between the strokes. All the men are in good condition...
This morning the crews will take their last row before leaving for New London on Monday. The launch John Harvard left on Thursday and the shells will be shipped tomorrow morning...
Gales Ferry, Conn., June 9, 1911.--Morning practice for the Yale crews today consisted of a long row for the three four-oared crews. None of the eights went out. The four-oars travelled fairly well and seemed to be about up to the usual standard of Yale fours. In the afternoon two eights and the same fours were again on the river and all rowed down to the Railroad Bridge and back in easy stretches...
...three-legged race, the potato race, the obstacle race, and the relay race for teams of eight. Men wishing to enter the different events should sign the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce's at once, as the number to compete is limited. There will also be tilting in row boats, for which entries in teams of three may be made at the same time. Baseball teams may be made up by all the members of a team signing under a team name, designating the captain. The first teams to enter will have the preference in the use of the diamond...