Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This was a good approach for the group of people we had," Butt said. "It resulted in a better understanding of the stroke for the crew...
Trying to incorporate the new stroke technique, the lightweights began their season somewhat disappointingly--coming in second to Yale at the Head of the Carnegie regatta...
Thus, as the winter training season approached, the team had two main goals: master the new stroke and correct the flaw in their catch. The team trained extremely hard, with many double practices, but mastering it proved to be difficult...
...team worked hard to find this stroke," Butt said. Senior Sam Truslow said it took him half the year to perfect the stroke, and even then only after double practices four times per week through the spring and summer. But it was the eventual perfection of this stroke that would define the season...
...moved out great at the start," Barnum said. So well, in fact, that Harvard had a full length lead over second-place Penn at the 1000-meter mark. Harvard's new stroke technique worked to perfection as the crew left its competition in its wake, ending with a whopping six-and-a-half second...