Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much progress as was expected has been made during the recess in the learning of the stroke. Although the crew have worked hard, they show scarcely any change from their condition before the vacation. [News...
...following men have been selected at Princeton form the university four: Bird, '85, captain and stroke; Harris, '86; Finely, '84; Green, '85; Smith, '85; Mumford, '85; Evans, '84; and Hempshall, '85. The first four men will probably form the crew...
...Yale crew is not improving as fast in its new stroke as was hoped would be the case. The wearers of the blue are feeling rather low spirited in conseqence...
Yale has permanently returned to the stroke and system I introduced there ten years ago. This year the boating authorities asked me to re-establish it and I have consented to do so. In point of fact, I already have the men in training. I labor under great disadvantage this year. In the first place, Harvard has already been availing herself of the English system, so that we find her today thoroughly familiar with it. They have already an excellent crew in training for this year's race. All of the men, with but one exception, were...
...were lost by the every best crews that ever sat in boats, and yet Davis, the man who coached them, is considered the best professional trainer in the country. This proves conclusively two important facts: First, that professional coaches will not do for college oarsmen. Secondly, that the English stroke is by far the best known. Davis' idea was to put his men into a boat in haphazard style and tell them to pull just as hard as they could. No attention whatever was paid to the position of the body. Physical power was the sole object looked...