Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges only wish to row a fair and gentlemanly race, which the diplomatic correspondence of the last two months seems to have endeavored to conceal, at once became evident when the representatives of the colleges met. The evident fairness of the settlement of the question about the method of starting cannot fail to commend it to every one. To start with the sterns of the shells even and to judge by the bows at the finish, would simply make our course about five feet shorter than Harvard's - we do not wonder that they objected. - [Record...
...disqualified if at any point during the race it should be nearer than ten feet or farther than ninety feet from the central line of buoys. It is further provided that if during the first ten strokes either boat shall be disabled by any bona fide accident the start shall be taken over again. The following is the substance of the provision in regard to the position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine by five inches on a metal rod eighteen inches high, the rod to be fixed perpendicularly at the stem...
Both boats shall be at the start at the time agreed upon. In case either boat fails to appear the captain of said boat shall personally report to the referee before said time, and unless the delay has been caused by a bona fide accident he shall at once proceed to start the other boat...
...races shall be started in the following manner: The referee shall ask the question, "Are you ready?" and receiving no reply, after waiting not more than five nor less than three seconds, shall give the word "Go!" and if either boat starts before the word is given by the referee it shall be recalled and a new start made as soon as possible...
...start shall be unfair if during the first two strokes either of the competing boats shall be disabled by any bona fide accident...