Word: shells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Saturday morning the crews raced in the basin, the second Freshmen having a two-length lead over the University crews at the start. The water was choppy, and the second University crew, using the short-sterned shell, found it hard to keep their boat straight. Under the circumstances the oarsmanship was satisfactory, and at the finish the first University crew led, with the first and second Freshmen and the second University crews close behind...
...first and second Freshman crews will return to Cambridge Wednesday morning to row, and will practice twice a day for the last four days of the week. During this time there will be at least two practice races, and the University crew will give the new short-sterned shell a thorough try-out. This boat was not very satisfactory last year, but since then it has been rerigged and improved
...from that time on came into more and more prominence. Three years later the second race with Yale was won, and the first Harvard boathouse was built during the succeeding season. In 1859 and 1860 the University won from Yale and Brown on Lake Quinsigamond. The prow of the shell used in these races is now on exhibition in the Union...
...most radical feature of the present campaign to develop winning crews at Yale was the introduction of a new English-built, side-rigged shell, which has been given extensive trial in the fall work. The shell is an innovation in college rowing circles. The oarsmen, instead of sitting in a horizontal line over the keel of the boat, sit in zig-zag fashion in their sliding seats, a few inches to the right or left of the keel...
Several important changes have been made in the orders of the crews the past few days. Meyer has taken his old position at 2 in the first shell, Trumbull being shifted from 2 to 6, while Harwood was returned to his former position of stroke on the second. Morgan has taken his place at 7 in the first shell, L. Curtis going to 7 in the second. Carver, who has been rowing 7 on the second, has been shifted to 3, Apollonio going to 7 in the third shell. Saltonstall has displaced C. Weston at 5 in the second...