Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy oarsmen got the jump on the rest of the Eastern crews in the matter of practice on the water, work for the midshipmen starting on February 20. Every member of the crew by one rowed in the first shell last season...
...shell which has been built this year by William Lutz on the design of Crowninshield, presumably for use by the University eight, is now finished with the exception of rigging...
...Yale the University will be sure to meet a worthy rival. Last year at New London now life was breathed into the disheartened Eli crew by the man who will again have charge of Yale's rowing--Coach Corderry, while are of the men who rowed on the victorious shell are again available. This year Yale starts with a reorganized system and with a clean record backed up by strong material. To defeat her crew on June 23 will undoubtedly be possible but it will surely demand all the ability and power the University can offer...
...specifications of the boat are very similar to those of a shell which was designed for the University by Crowning shield in 1910. The new boat will be 18 inches longer, 61 1-2 feet in all, and an inch deeper, 10 1-2 inches in all; it will be 23 inches in width. The rigging of the shell is being worked out under the direction of members of the Rowing Committee...
Providing they do not interfere with the actual work of building, the coaches are very anxious to have oarsmen visit the Nowell Workshop, where the boat is being made, in order to learn something of the construction of a shell...