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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...start, at 4.08 o'clock, the Yale crew gained a slight advantage with a little the faster stroke, but at the end of the first half-mile the University crew led by a few feet. The men in both boats were rowing well and the splashing so pronounced in the first few strokes gave way to clean blade work. In the second half-mile Yale overcame Harvard's lead and was 1 second ahead at the mile flag. By the time that the 1 1-2 mile flag was reached the University crew, with a slow stroke, was rowing neck...
...prospects for a strong University crew next year are very bright. In addition to the fact that some of the men will have been under Coach Wray for two years and will have become thoroughly acquainted with his style of rowing, the coach will be fully aware from the start of the exact calibre and ability of the majority of men on the squad...
...race between the University eights will start opposite "Red Top" at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and will be rowed four miles down stream, finishing at the rialroad bridge...
...annual boat races between the Harvard and Yale University eights and four-oars, and the Freshman eights, will be rowed on the Thames at New London on Thursday, June 28. The first race, between the Freshman eights, will start at 10 o'clock under the railroad bridge and will finish two miles upstream, at the Navy Yard. Immediately afterwards, the University four-oars will start at this point and row upstream two miles to a point opposite "Red Top," the University crew quarters...
...Council during the past year; and, at the last meeting, M. C. Leckner '07 was elected president for next year. The Council has done very effective work. It began the year with a debt of $300, which it succeeded in paying off as well as arranging to start next year on a better financial basis than ever before. Most of the money was raised through the efforts of a committee, consisting of A. A. Ballantine 2L., A. C. Blagden '06, and M. C. Leckner...