Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought that a swimmer of even ordinary ability could have reached the shore. Rules for sculling in the University demand that a man who takes out a wherry be able to swim four lengths of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. He is also instructed implicitly to remain by his shell in case of accident...
Coach Newell sends his B 150-pound boat into the second event of the regatta, the race of the light boats of Harvard, Penn, and M. I. T. This shell, stroked by Dudley Merrill '26, won the right to represent the University in the event when they defeated the rival A crew last Thursday by one length over the Henly distance...
...soon narrowed the lead, and at the mile mark, where the 150-pound eights dropped out, the second eight led only by a length. Coming, into the final stretch, the first boat gained perceptibly, but Canning raised the stroke, and maintained a lead of half a length as his shell crossed the finish line...
...pound Quaker eight did not get their shell rigged until considerably after the first two Red and Blue crews had left the boathouse, but their practice consisted of a time trial over the Henley distance...
...Freshman four, stroked by S. A. Buckingham '27, passed the first Browne and Nichols four-oared shell at the three-quarters mile mark and finished the mile and the race two lengths ahead of the preparatory boys, yesterday afternoon in the Basin...