Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unchanged order under the coaching of E.C. Storrow '89. Special attention was given to the method of applying the power, particularly at the finish of the stroke. The crew seemed to show a little improvement, rowing well together, with an even beat, and more life. In a half mile stretch on the way home, when the crew was rowing 28, they seemed to space well and travel fast, but it is impossible to gauge the speed of the eight when they are not beside the second. I. P. Dana '71, captain of the '71 crew, coached...
Coach Bancroft has been giving the men rather light work, directing the rowing form the launch or from a single. The crews have, brushes for short distances, and in these the first shows a marked superiority both in form and speed. On a mile stretch, yesterday, the first finished several lengths ahead of the second...
...stretches of nearly a mile each down stream in the lower basin, Bullard's crew finished slightly in the lead. At the Union Boat Club, Sanger was put in place of Smith at two in Ayer's crew; and in Bullard's crew, Dunbar replaced Lloyd at three, and Cunningham took Phillips's seat at two. On the way back, the two eights took the mile and seven-eighths stretch. At Harvard bridge Bullard's crew had a slight lead, but going somewhat out of the course to keep near the launch, finished over a length behind Ayer's crew...
...Scheuber missed his stride and took his hurdle with the wrong foot. This gave Willis a slight lead which he maintained to the end. In the 440 yards run M. T. Lightner '03 led throughout with E. C. Rust '04 second. Rust was hindered from challenging Lightner in the stretch owing to an accident to his running suit...
...mile run J. C. Grew '02 got the lead at the turn for the three-quarter mile. On the back stretch F. S. Buffum '04 took the lead, holding it to the end. About 20 yards from the tape J. W. Foster '03 on a spurt passed Grew and finished second; Buffum won by 4 yards...