Word: stroked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Butler Has Changed Navy Stroke...
...Cambridge he mistakes the Dickey Clubhouse for his dormitory and is thrown out on his ear. Nothing daunted, he proceeds to "pick up" the pretty daughter of a professor. The following spring, the night before the boat races at New London, he gets stewed, although he is substitute stroke on the freshman crew and is called upon to row the race, which he loses. Finally, with his help, Harvard licks Yale at football ten to three. Is it necessary to go on? You may not know much about Harvard, but believe me, such things just don't happen there...
...second crew is now seated as for lows: Stroke, Saltonstall; 7, Howe; 6, Iselin; 5, Weymer; 4, Amest; 3, Canning; 2, Murchie; bow Perkins; coxswain Pforzheimer...
...junior University combination is not scheduled to race this Saturday, and so the Saltonstall-stroked combination will go to Red Top untried by outside competition. Yesterday the crew boated in an old shell, rowed at a very slow and easy stroke, and went better than it has for some time...
...change in rigging recalls a similar shift made four years ago, when Captain Appleton a starboard oar, was placed at stroke in mid-season with the shell's rigging being changed accordingly. Although the second crew rowed in an old boat yesterday, their regular shell is having its rigging changed and they will probably row in it today...