Word: slides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rowing. By taking an oar himself in the "A" crew for several weeks, he has throughly demonstrated his method to members of the University squad. And his assistants have done their job well among the other crews. The oarsmen have studied the new stroke with particular attention to the slide, blade work, and body swing. Since the work has been chiefly in fundamentals no races have been attempted although often the crews have been given short sprints to liven up matters. Coach Stevens has not tried to grade the men. Two crews were early made up of Juniors and Seniors...
Marooned in the center of the field a group of photographers made a forlorn effort to take motion pictures of the cheer leaders as they slip and slide up and down the side lines...
...usual, the lightning shoot of the hands away from the body, the coordination of movement between shoulders and knees throughout. This latter forms the most pronounced break from the system employed by Coach Muller last spring. The latter had his men come all the way forward before moving the slide at at all. The new style calls for proportional movement all around,--first the hands, then almost simultaneously the shoulders follow with the slide starting at once in response to the general forward motion of the whole body...
...situation is entirely temporary. Fall track work is not an end in itself, being only a form of training and conditioning for the important encounters of the spring. There are two possible solutions for the Athletic Association's present policy: first, that it is merely letting the track situation slide along with the best possible temporary coaching arrangements, or, secondly, that it is building up a system which will have an opportunity to develop during the Fall into a smoothly working machine for use in the Spring season...
This week Stevens will give individual attention to those men who can arrange to go out with him in a pair oared in order to get such points in his system as a longer slide and leg drive and sitting straighter at the catch and finish...