Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...election of a successor to Captain Rand is significant. Harvard has enjoyed few first-rate track captains in the past, and of course it would be a platitude to ascribe our present winning streak in all sports to exceptional captains--combined with improved coaching. Rand won his place in the front rank by the measure in which he contributed to the building up of this season's team. Without detracting from the coaches' credit, it is only fair to say, in the words of one of them, that Rand was the "sun-shine" of the team. Confronted by material appreciably...
...spring up at once, and rowing, when it began in 1844, was more of the nature of a pastime. The "Oneida," which was the first boat used at Harvard, was typical of the other boats soon afterwards bought by the different clubs. It was 37 feet long of lap-streak construction, heavy and low in the water, and the thole pins were sunk in the gunwale. There was no shear, the stem was straight and the men rowed in red cushions; the whole having the appearance of a man-of-war's gig at the present time...
...first Harvard and Yale Freshman race was won by Harvard on July 24, 1860, on Lake Quinsigamond, over a one and one-half mile course. The Harvard crew was in the "Thetis," a six oared lap streak, and the Yale crew was in the "Glyuna," a six-oared half-shell...