Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaving his first crew intact, but changing the rigging of the second boat and putting Saltonstall in the pace-setter's seat of a starboard-stroked shell, Coach Stevens started the University crews yesterday on a week of intensive preparation for the race with Annapolis, M.I.T., and Cornell on Saturday...
...proving grounds would penetrate the armor of the Merrimac as it had been reproduced from the specifications furnished by spies. It was the regret of John Ericsson's life that the Merrimac was not sunk by the Monitor in the first encounter. The powder charge required to drive the shell through the armor had been cut in two by order of the War Department, it being deemed unsafe to the gunners. In the second encounter, after the Monitor had narrowly escaped being rammed, the crew in desperation used a full charge, which drove the projectile into the vitals...
...Coach Haines' big Freshman New that gave the late afternoon regatta on the Basin its only Crimson tinge. The first year shell pulled out in the lead at the start and was never threatened. Tech passed Penn for a close second which was the first of the three captured by the Engineers during the afternoon...
...latter, however, retaliated going under the bridge and gradually pushed to the front again. With a third of a mile left to row Captain Winthrop put the Crimson stroke up to 40 and the University shell began to gain. But the leaders were not to be denied their victory, and Penn fighting off the Crimson spurt swept across the finish line with Tech still hanging on a bare half length behind...
...contest between the eights the second Freshman boat, stroked by Greer, led two Union Boat Club shells and the third Freshman outfit across the finish line. The third 1929 boat and the first Union Boat Club crew finished in a dead heat two and a half lengths behind the winning shell...