Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take place October 13 on Lake Saltonstall. The junior crew that won the race last spring will be made up of the same men that rowed then. They are as follows: Sweeter, bow; H. S. Burroughs, 2; Glison, 3; Field, 4; Newell, 5; James, 6; Burroughs, 7; Harrison, stroke...
...Pennsylvania freshman crew last June has lost two of its members, whose places will probably be filled with two of the following men: Chadwick, Williams, Robbins and Noyes. Of the old crew the following men remain: remain: Simms, bow; Aiken, 2; Heyworth, 3; Ferris, 4; Allen, 7, and Rogers, stroke...
...crew was lessened. The committee deprecated the state of affairs last year when they felt as thought they lacked the moral support of the University in their work. The defeat of the crew was the inevitable result of a race between an eight of veterans, rowing a familiar stroke, and a new eight rowing the same stroke for the first time...
...practised the same system, while Harvard seemed to have endeavored to forget as much of it as possible. The contrast between the style of rowing of the Harvard and Yale crews in the race was most striking. The Yale crew carefully covered their oars at the beginning of the stroke and kept them covered to the end, maintaining a firm pressure throughout, the appearance of their oars in the water reminding the observer of the Harvard crew of 1885, but otherwise their work was far superior to that of Storrow's crew. The Harvard crew, in their body work, followed...
...they not appoint an advisory committee of graduates? Such a committee, appointed with definitely limited powers, could do much by their advice and assistance to aid the captain in his duties. With their help the captain could decide on the policy of the crew and the details of the stroke. With the captain and crew in thorough accord with its advisors, the task of developing the eight would be far easier, and when to this is added the stimulus which the increased interest of the college at large would impart to the crew, could they feel that...