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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Carroll Cup race will start from the Longwood bridge at 4.30 o'clock on Friday afternoon, and will be rowed downstream over the one-mile course. The class races will start at 5 o'clock at the same place, and will be rowed downstream over the 1 and 7-8 miles course...
...upstream for a mile and three-quarters in short stretches before turning. Most of the time on the way upstream the men paddled along at an easy gait, but in a couple of stretches the stroke was raised and lowered to accustom the men to short sprints. Soon after starting Burchard injured one of his thumbs, but after it had been bound, he was able to proceed. Returning downstream the second crew was overtaken and four racing starts were tried. In these the University crew finished ahead twice, the second once, and on the other start the two crews ended...
...then took a stretch upstream again as far as the Stillman Infirmary, before returning to the University boathouse. The distance covered was about 4 and 1-2 miles. At times a fairly fast stroke was rowed, and at other times the crew merely paddled. In the single racing start that was attempted the University crew was able to pull ahead of the second. Considerable improvement in the first crew over Tuesday's practice was noticeable, particularly in the life and fire that the men put into their work...
...time that the University crew race with Columbia will start on Saturday afternoon will be 2.30 o'clock--not 5 o'clock, as was announced in certain Boston and New York papers yesterday. Two other races will be rowed that afternoon before the University contest. The Senior crew will row against Stone's School at 1.30 o'clock, and the Freshman eight will start against the Worcester High School...
When the crews had turned around, they drifted upstream with the tide for a few moments, and then had a race for about half a mile upstream as far as the Longwood bridge. On a racing start from the pistol, the University caught first water and gradually pulled ahead. Tappan rowed almost 40 strokes to the minute at the start and the rest of the men were well with him. He went about 30 or 32 most of the time, and in the spurt at the end got up to about 34. He kept his stroke long all the time...