Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only difference between the Yale stroke of today and the Harvard stroke of '85, is that Yale practices a slightly stronger "catch" than was used by the latter, and in this respect, the former is superior...
Some men in college who have rowed a year or two with tolerable success, assume, for some totally unsupportable reason, that because we are working slowly and carefully, we are working against the interests of the University crew. We are not. There is but one time to determine what stroke a crew is rowing, and that is during the race: different individuals often use different methods in teaching precisely the same stroke. Those methods, to, will depend largely upon the men in the boat and their tendency to fall into faults...
...Garnet, in speaking of the Harvard Stroke, says: "The Storrow stroke is from beginning to end one big smooth heave, and from the moment the oar enters the water until it reaches the air, the oarsman is almost standing on the stretcher. In direct contrast to the English stroke, his weight is not resting heavily on the seat, or at eight angles to the direction of the boat. Moreover, the boat is rigged close; the stretchers are not more than twelve inches from the end of the slide; the slides are lengthened, too, from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches...
...think it would hurt the freshmen to receive a little advice from the captain and members of the University eight, who will not be slow to inform them that unless they abandon the stroke under which they have attained such snail-like velocity, and take a tremendous "brace" all round they are destined to a terrible defeat in every race...
Caldwell, T. S., stroke...