Word: speed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...season a professional coach will be employed, who, together with the graduate coaches, J. W. Gilles '02, captain of last year's team, and J. K. Clark L.S. '02, will endeavor to develop new material. More stress than ever before will be laid on team work, formation and speed. Contrary to the usual custom, the schedule this year will comprise only university and college teams, and an attempt will be made to play more home games than in the past. The intercollegiate rule, however, requires two games with each member of the league. Accordingly the schedule this year will comprise...
...University crew and raced over the first half of the four mile course, winning by one quarter of a length in slow time, due to the head wind and rough water. In the last two miles the University crew gave a better exhibition, were steadier, smoother and showed more speed; but finished in the slow time 24.55. The crews then returned to quarters...
...reaching the boat house the crews exchanged shells in order that the relative speed of the two boats might be tested. In the two half-mile stretches that followed, each crew won a brush, leading in each instance by about half a length...
...while Holy Cross showed brilliance in every department, playing an errorless game in the field, making two double plays, batting well, bunting very successfully and taking advantage of every point. Harvard made five errors, two of which were costly, and was prevented from batting better by Coakley's great speed...
...stroke. The crew seemed to show a little improvement, rowing well together, with an even beat, and more life. In a half mile stretch on the way home, when the crew was rowing 28, they seemed to space well and travel fast, but it is impossible to gauge the speed of the eight when they are not beside the second. I. P. Dana '71, captain of the '71 crew, coached the men for a few moments, before reaching the boat house, on watermanship and balancing the boat...