Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock the University and Freshman crews arrived at Red Top. Immediately following the arrival all three eights were given a short work-out consisting of a three-quarter mile paddle down stream against wind the tide. This is the first time since the spring of 1916 that a University shell has been launched on the Thames. The Yale crews came down from Gales Ferry to cheer Harvard just as the latter arrived from Cambridge...
Maynard, who has been rowing at stroke in the "Cosmopolitan" shell, is only temporarily taking the place of Peters in the first boat, who has been incapacitated for a short time on account of boils on his left wrist...
...Henley Course on New Haven Harbor. The University Juni0rs took the lead at the start and gained steadily; but Yale was put entirely out of the running by misfortune when, with Harvard four lengths to the good at the mile mark, Kent, at No. 6 in the Eli shell, broke his oar and added a spectacular touch to the event by jumping overboard...
...first day of the Class and Club crew regatta the Junior eight won the interclass championship of the river by a lead of a clear length and one-half over the Sophomore boat, and will, in consequence, meet the winning Yale class shell on the Housatonic two weeks from tomorrow. The first Eliot crew scored an easy victory over Thayer in the race for the Inter-Club championship, in a contest greatly marred by the handicap which the losing eight sustained when one of their seats split in two at the end of the first quarter-mile and left...
...very start the 1921 oarsmen got away to a slight lead, but were passed in the next few strokes by the Junior shell. The latter crew, maintaining a high stroke, gained steadily on the Sophomores throughout the first mile, while the Senior eight, after a short brush with 1921, dropped well to the rear. As the boats neared Harvard Bridge the leaders were a length to the good. Both coxswains called for a spurt, and the Juniors added a half length to their advantage before running into the rough water of the Basin. From that moment until the final sprint...