Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There now remains only a little over two weeks before the spring class races will take place for they will probably be rowed on May 4. All the crews have now given up barge practice and are rowing in shells: the seniors and juniors have been in theirs for over two weeks, the freshmen nearly as long a time, while the sophomores first used their shell on Tuesday...
...sophomores used their new cedar shell for the first time yesterday afternoon. Instead of being so extremely light as in a recent issue it was stated, she would be the shell was found to be nearly if not quite as heavy as an ordinary paper shell...
John Blakie the boat builder, will within a few days turn out to the '91 crew a cedar shell, which he is building for them This fact would not be of particular importance, were it not that on the success or failure of this boat depends whether or not the 'varsity crew will go back to a cedar shell in stead of a paper shell which kind they have been using for several years. The boat has been built with great care and will have more than ordinary buoyancy. The bracing of the boat is the feature of particular interest...
...Yale freshman shell, built by Waters, of Troy, has been delivered at the boat house. The most noticeable points are that it is heavier, broader and deeper than the university boats, and has rather short outboards. It is rigged with gear which Appleton, '86, invented for use on the university boat, and with metal runners on wooden slides. The price...
...WOOD. Sec.FOR SALE.- Four-oared cedar shell with oars and rigging complete. Built by Ruddock and fitted with Davis appliances throughout. Hardly used at all. A bargain. Address, "SCULLER" Boston Globe...