Word: shells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rowing 40 strokes to the minute. The stroke was soon dropped to 36 and then to 38, and at the half-mile University A had a half-length's lead. Upon passing the mile mark both crews again dropped their stroke. There the Freshmen were waiting, and the 1919 shell, starting a length from behind, secured a beautiful start, and in one minute was up to the first crew. The Freshmen soon dropped to 32 strokes to the minute, but they held their own, for the finish was a dead heat between the 1919 boat and University A, with...
...still retained the place of H. S. Middendorf '16 in the first University crew today, since the latter was not able to return to practice. White, who has been on Crew A for two days, is beginning to fit into the boat better, but the unity of the shell is certainly not the same with Middendorf out. The check of Crew A which was troubling the coaches greatly the last few days is rapidly being eliminated, and with the return of Middendorf, this crew ought to be in remarkable form...
...crews were occupied with regulation spins today. The first eight started over the mile course, but stopped just before the finish. The time was about 2 minutes, 40 seconds, which even with the present weather conditions is very poor. There seems to be a bad check in this Yale shell, which Coach Nichalls is doing his best to remedy. McLane, the experienced Yale coxswain, today lost his plac to Lasher, and the only assignable reason is that McLane has become too corpulent to hold down his job at the extreme stern...
...today saw C. C. Lund '16 back at stroke on University A, and R. R. Brown '17 rowed his old place at stroke on the second boat. Crew A had a regulation work-out, but an exciting race was staged between the Freshmen and the second eight. The 1919 shell secured a bad start, but by raising the stroke they soon caught up and held their own until near the finish, when the second crew with a fine spurt shot ahead and won by a length. The race was over the two-mile course upstream...
...Yale second eight this morning engaged in a short brush with the first crew and came out ahead. The remainder of this crew's practice consisted in two more miles of hard rowing. The Yale coaches sent the 1919 shell for three miles, but let the yearlings off without any race...