Word: second
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second football mass meeting, held last evening in the Union, was marked by great enthusiasm, the crowd filling the room and overflowing into the halls. G. P. Gardner, Jr., '10 and C. L. Lanigan '10 Led the cheering, and J. S. Reed '10 the singing...
Halfway from the third bridge to the Cottage Farm Bridge the University and second crews hugged close to the Cambridge shore and went inside two rafts anchored about one hundred feet off shore, while the third crew passed outside both rafts and was passed by the second crew. Just after leaving the rafts the University crew raised the stroke to 33 for a time and further cut down the lead of the second crew to only two lengths of open water, this stretch being the first time the crew showed good form and got into the water quickly...
Slowly but determinedly the University eight drew away from the third and gained on the second with every stroke until at Harvard Bridge the second crew was only a seant length and a quarter of open water ahead. The third crew was by this time well out of the race, about six lengths behind. Halfway from Harvard Bridge to the finish the bow of the University boat lapped the stern of the second crew shell, the University crew rowing at this point a hard 33. The second crew fought hard, however, and the University eight was now only able...
...finished in good condition but were very tired. Stroke Cutler, after the University eight had hit the launch, drove his crew hard and was well backed up, especially by the three men directly behind him, the stern four doing the best work throughout the race. The second crew made a splendid fight in the last three quarters of a mile and was well stroked by Forster. It was not till after hitting the launch that the University crew showed any sort of form and power, but the work of the eight in this last half of the race offset...
...Second crew--Stroke, Forster; 7, Hooper; 6, Higginson; 5, Maxwell; 4, Waite; 3, Loring; 2, Parker; Bow, Anderson; cox., Voorhees...