Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fiske, captain of the sophomore crew, dislocated his shoulder while skating, last Monday, and will be obliged to give up rowing for a month. His place at stroke is being filled by Remington...
...Number one stops at end of shoot, and then rushes down; number two might shorten his swing forward; number three jerks his hands towards his knees when starting to swing up; number four does not let the arm and body movements follow each other continuously; number five uses his shoulder; number six bends his arms too soon; number seven uses his shoulders, and bends arms too soon; number eight lunges forward at the finish of the recover; number nine changes his grip, and does not sit up high enough ; stroke hangs slightly at the reach...
This ten has an irregular recover, and a jerkiness in all its movements. Number one, two and three do not make their motions consecutively; four continually changes his girl; five bends his arms too soon; and raises his shoulders; six should sit up higher. And make his movements continuous; seven bends his arms too soon after the catch; eight has an awkward shoulder movement; nine does not follow stroke closely, and bends his arms too soon; stroke hesitates before shooting out his arms, and bends his arms too soon. The above criticisms on the individual members of the two freshmen...
When the body is bent forward, and the arms are extended to their "full reach," the shoulders should always be kept down and back, for a shoulder movement is jerky, as well as extremely tiresome. It is unnecessary work which often severely taxes an oarsman's strength. Meanwhile the arms are kept perfectly straight, (not rigid, for rigidity tires the muscles), until the body stops to reverse its motion just back of the perpendicular. At this point the arms are drawn to the chest at the rate at which the body has been swinging back; but, as soon as they...
Episode of the Yale-Wesleyan freshman game: "A Yale man had a badlooking eye, but later on, when unlawfully tackled, focussed his unimpaired member on a Wesleyan man sufficiently accurately to reach him twice straight from the shoulder."-[Spirit of the Times...