Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...while the third crew passed outside both rafts and was passed by the second crew. Just after leaving the rafts the University crew raised the stroke to 33 for a time and further cut down the lead of the second crew to only two lengths of open water, this stretch being the first time the crew showed good form and got into the water quickly. It was just after this that the crew lost three lengths or more by running into the launch. About 300 yards after the Cottage Farm Bridge had been passed, the University crew passed the third...
...first of the inter-dormitory bumping races will be rowed this afternoon over the same course as last year. The race will start at the long stretch above the Boylston street bridge beyond the second bend, and, instead of finishing at this bend as was originally planned, the race will continue to the Newell boathouse and end between it and the range flags placed on the opposite bank. The crews will row in two divisions, starting at 3.30 and 4 o'clock respectively, and will take their positions in the following order...
...Wednesday afternoon the first of the inter-dormitory bumping races will be rowed downstream over the three-quarter mile stretch above the Boylston street bridge. The races will be rowed in two divisions, starting at 3.30 and 4 o'clock respectively...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 21, 1909.--As the weather was excessively hot today the crews all had very light work in the morning. The University crew paddled down-stream to the Navy Yard, and back in easy stretches at a slow stroke. The University four followed the eight down-stream and back, and the second four took a light row up-stream towards the Yale quarters. The Freshman four rowed down-stream a little beyond Cows Point and back, and the eight covered the same distance. Later in the afternoon it was much cooler; the crews went...
...eight did not turn back until it had rowed two and a half miles. In the afternoon the freshman crew rowed down-stream two miles at a slow stroke, and the university eight was taken down to the railroad-bridge in the launch and rowed back in a single stretch. The two university and freshman four-oars rowed a half-mile race and the freshmen were given a start of a length. The freshmen came in second. No time was taken...