Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard had a huge crew-183 Ib. to a man-slow over sprint courses but formidable for a four-mile race like last week's at New London. In it were Coxswain Henry Hamilton Bissell, Stroke Gerard Cassedy and four other oarsmen who were on the crews that beat Yale last year and the year before. Coach Ed Leader's Yale boat, known to be fast, had won all three of its sprint races earlier in the season. But no one knew whether it had enough endurance for a long pull, particularly if the wind blew...
Although the eight has had only a few days of practice together, it already begins to show signs of being the sprint crew it is intended to be. In a race so short as the 2000-metre it is essential that the crew be able to maintain a racing stroke of 34 or 35 without losing any of the smoothness and proportion which is easier to obtain at a lower beat. For this reason Coach Whiteside will lay special emphasis on paddles at this tempo, and also on racing starts and twenty-stroke sprints which are both essential factors...
...deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...
...Saturday's time trial, however, marked improvement was shown by the Varsity. The dousing was not so bad as usual, and the checking was moderate. When the sprint was called for a the Harvard Bridge, power was available for it. There should be little to hamper the progress of both crews from now on, and, if present indications are prophetic, they will make a better showing next Saturday against Navy and Penn than they did against Princeton and M.I.T. two weeks...
...Yale Varsity crew: it's first race of the season, for the Blackwell Cup: by two feet, after a sprint in the last 50 yards to overtake Penn. with Columbia third by a boat-length; on the Housatonic River, at Derby, Conn...