Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Against a strong head wind, the Second and Freshman crews raced over the upper two miles of the course on the Thames today in the first brush of the year between these two eights. Coach Stevens Junior boat crossed the line a length ahead of Captain Watts' Freshman shell...
During the morning spin, Coach Stevens again took a seat in a shell in order better to illustrate the particular faults he was having difficulty pointing out from the launch. At seat seven in the second boat, the Head Coach spent practically all of the time devoted to the early row. The University shell remained close to the Second boat, where Coach Stevens directed his coaching activities for the benefit of oarsmen in both eights...
...feature of tomorrow's program will be a race between the Second and Freshman crews over the two mile distance. This will probably be the only time these eights race here, since Coach Stevens intends to use them as pacemakers for the University shell in its time trials, each crew pacing the First boat for two miles...
Last year a Crimson waiters eight defeated the Eli bus boys by nearly ten lengths in a quarter mile race. This overwhelming defeat was inflicted on the Blue shell in spite of a flagrant violation in crew etiquette on the part of the Yale coxswain, who in addition to steering his boat its somewhat zigzag course down the Thames, assisted the progress of his shell by using a canoe paddle. It is reported that both camps intend to take the Waiters race seriously this year...
...Third University boat, picked by many as the most likely of the Crimson entrants to win, was defeated by Yale and Pennsylvania in a thrilling race. In winning this event, the Blue shell negotiated the Henley distance in six minutes 46 and four-fifths seconds, which clipped one-fifth of a second off the former record for this class...