Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightweight crews persist in turning in extremely good clockings in time trials. Wednesday the varsity shell rowed the course in 6:46.5 under fairly rough conditions, beating the second boat by a length of open water...
...experiment with his crews despite their fine records so far, in an effort to gain the greatest possible speed from his men. This week Henley veteran Mike Christian moved into the varsity at the three seat in place of Irving Destler and Roy Gosse went into the J.V. shell for C. Michael...
Princeton was thrashed last weekend by a strong Pennsylvania eight and the week before finished a length behind Navy in a mile and three quarter race. With only three men back from last year's boat this seems to be a rebuilding year for a young Tiger shell which so far has not demonstrated much ferocity...
Indeed M.I.T. may prove to be the main opposition for the Crimson eight. Although finding themselves three lengths behind the varsity last Saturday the Tech shell had only one day rowing together and should therefore show considerable improvement tomorrow after greater practice together. One might note that Tech has never beaten the Crimson varsity heavyweights on the Charles course...
After the unexpectedly easy victory over Syracuse, Coach Love has been concerned that the crew continue to progress and not sit back this week, for the race next weekend with Pennsylvania will certainly demand the maximum effort possible. Main emphasis, therefore, has been on increasing the strength of the shell. "The big thing now, once we have attained the rate of speed and striking for racing, is to toughen up as the weeks go by," Love said...