Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thimblerig = the Shell Game, with three thimble-like cups, a pea, a sleight-of-hand, a gullible bettor...
...victory for the slugging, slamming, slaughtering CRIMSON nine will follow the heels of the naval encounter. Robert Lampoon, stalwart stroke of the Mt. Auburn Street shell, will as usual be on the mound for the jester nine. It will be the diminutive southpaw's twenty-eighth attempt to turn back the board of Plympton Street bingles, and it will be his twenty-eighth failure. Despite the doomed position of his mates, the twirley was in good spirits last night, and it is thought that the little optimist actually hopes to hold his opponents total down to 21 or even...
...crews got off from the starting line and rowed over the first half mile of the course with all three crews abreast. Here Pearson's shell started to pull away gradually as rougher water was encountered, until it had a length and a half margin over Sturges' crew just beyond the Harvard Bridge. The strokes dropped to 29 and 28 as the water grew more troublesome, and the three boats continued downstream and across the finish line with the Sophomores three lengths ahead of the Junior eight, and Lawrence's Sophomore crew another length in the rear. The winning crew...
Coach Brown's greatest coaching problem is still the selection and development of a stroke man with the smoothness and stamina to guide the Crimson shell over the four mile course at New London in the annual Harvard-Yale epic...
...Swaim '31, who has been stroking the University crew since the middle of April, changed places yesterday afternoon with P.H. Watts '31, pacesetter for the jayvees. In addition R.R. McKesson '31 was rowing at No. 6 in the second shell, taking the place of B.J. Harrison '29 who was moved to No. 4 in the first crew. C.McK. Norton '29, former occupant of that position was shifted to No. 2, McKesson's old berth. The two crews will row today and may race tomorrow with the above changes from Saturday's lineup...