Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mettes. - The surprise of our English cousins on seeing this crew row would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage...
...Captain; F. B. Hall, '80, E. Fuller, '80, G. B. Hatch, '80, L. F. Woodward, S. S., G. K. Boutelle, '78, H. W. Mason, '78 (coxswain). Weld: P. Tuckerman, '78 (bow), H. Townsend, '80, D. O. Ives, '79, A. W. Hooper, '81, W. Trimble, '79, R. Trimble, '80 (stroke), F. H. Allen...
FOUR-OARED RACE (2 miles).Union: T. Houghton, C. H. Williams, Jones (bow), F. Peabody (stroke), Williams, 2d. (cox.). Harvard: W. Kessler, '78 (bow), T. W. Preston, '79, J. Parker, '78, L. N. Littauer, '78 (stroke), G. L. Cheney...
...Union four are rowing regularly, and make a heavy crew. They are pulling the old '76 stroke, and are doing very well...
...following is the crew in training for the race with the Union Boat-Club, May 18: Kessler, '78, bow; Trimble, '80, 2; Parker, '78, 3; Littauer, '78, stroke; Cheney, '78, coxswain...