Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...waist, to twelve feet at bow and stern. The captain's gig of a man-of-war will give a very good idea of her general fittings." Since then a number of improvements have been made, and new boats used, until we have finally obtained the Waters' paper shell, which is perhaps the best racing shell made...
...paper shell in which the Yale University crew will row Harvard arrived on Wednesday of last week. It was built by Waters of Troy, N. Y., and is a beauty. It is just sixty feet in length, is very light, and is somewhat narrower and deeper than the boat used last season. The rigging, with one or two slight changes, is substantially the same as last season. The crew tried it on Thursday for the first time, and Captain Cowles expressed himself as well pleased with the boat, which is in every respect satisfactory. The crew is now rowing with...
...pulling a fast race and making a fine spurt when called upon to do so. The freshmen will not row in a new boat at New London, as they have all along expected. Waters, who was to make their boat, has been hard at work on the Harvard 'varsity shell, and could not finish it in time to make a boat for the Yale men. They will therefore be obliged to use one of the old 'varsity shells, probably the '85 boat. Corbin is back again in the boat, having recovered entirely from his recent illness. It is uncertain...
...Yale crew has begun rowing in its new shell...
...stump's" coxswain was W. H. Goodwin, weight, 110 pounds. The great weight of the big crew brought the top of their shell down almost to the water's edge. The race was for a supper to be given by the vanquished, but both crews were so thoroughly pumped that the banquet has been postponed for a few days. The students took great interest in the contest, and crowds of them watched it from start to finish. - N. Y. Times...