Word: sec
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HARVARD has crossed the line (time, 20 min. 44 3/5 sec.), Yale is expected every minute," was the telegram despatched from the finish to the start at the end of the fourth race of eight-oared University crews in America...
...slackened to 37, which was their rate when they crossed the line. The men from New Haven pulled a plucky race, and stuck to their work manfully, though they could not have had any hopes of winning after the first mile of the regatta. They came in 44 2/5 sec. behind the Harvard crew, but even then their time (21 min. 29 sec.) beats Yale's winning time at Springfield...
Harvard's time in the New London race (20 min. 44 8/5 sec.) is the best time made in the four University regattas with eight-oared shells. It would probably have been several seconds better if our crew had not caught their oars in the eelgrass near the start...
...Alvah Crocker (bow), N. M. Brigham (No. 2), B J. Legate (No. 3), M. R. Jacobs (No. 4), V. D. L. Stow (No. 5), W. U. Schwartz (No. 6), F. W. Smith (No. 7), W. A. Bancroft (stroke and captain), F. H. Allen (coxswain). Time, 20 min. 44 3/5 sec...
...Yale University Crew. - J. W. Curtis (bow), F. E. Hyde (No 2), B. S. Keator (No. 3), H. Livingston (No. 4), H. W. Taft (No. 5), G. B. Rogers (No 6), D. Trumbull (No. 7), O. D. Thompson (stroke and captain), C. F. Aldrich (coxswain). Time, 21 min. 29 sec...