Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...still another half length. The first crew was rowing well together, but without snap. The men did not stand on the stretchers and the boat buried badly at the end of every stroke. In view of this discouraging work, Coach Higginson encouraged the men and called for a spurt. The crew responded by raising the stroke to 32 for about 25 strokes, but as the boats passed Longwood bridge, it was seen that the second crew had more than held their lead of four seconds, besides the fifteen seconds handicap...
...crews were sent from the line at 3.41, the Weld having the southerly course. Both crews took a short spurt at the very start, the navy rowing about 37 to the minute and the Weld crew about 35. Although rowing two points lower, the Weld eight at once jumped a few feet in the lead, and for a mile and a half the relative position of the two boats remained almost unchanged. The Weld crew gradually lowered their stroke to a long, hard 32, while Annapolis held to a short, killing 38 without being able to make any material gain...
...this way for a mile and a half the two eights side by side fought up the Severn against tide and wind. Occasionally, the Annapolis crew would creep up on the Weld, and then a short spurt by the latter would again leave them them eight or ten feet behind. Throughout, the Naval Academy crew rowed several points higher than the Weld, but at no time did they lead...
With a half mile left to go and the crews almost even, the Weld eight began to raise the stroke gradually for the final spurt, rowing 35 to the minute. The navy was rowing only about one point higher and slowly fell a few feet behind again, where they remained until the last quarter of a mile was reached. Here they set in with a final determined effort to win, raising the stroke to 38 for a long, hard spurt. The Weld crew at once responded, however, by raising the stroke to 37, which proved to be much more effective...
...brush over the mile and seven-eighths course on Saturday, Ayer's crew held the lead for a mile and a half, but became ragged in the last half mile and finished over a length behind Bullard's crew. Both crews were very unsteady. In a short spurt, just before going into the boat house, both crews ran the stroke up to about 38 and finished even...