Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia 'varsity crew: Row, R. T. Watson, '91, 160 pounds; 2, R. Meikleham. '90, 155; 3, W. K. Foote, L. S., 172; 4. W. O'Gorman, jr., L. S., 172. 5, H. C. Tuttle, '91. 180; 6. Eugene Klapp, '89, 165; 7, W. B. Robertson, '91, 160; stroke, H. C. Felton...
...have been using for several years. The boat has been built with great care and will have more than ordinary buoyancy. The bracing of the boat is the feature of particular interest, it being a new departure in shell building. A chain of unbroken iron bracing runs from the stroke clear forward to number one thus giving great stiffness, and at the same the braces have been made as light as practicable in order not to weight the boat too much. The slides are inclined so as to require the minimum exertion on the recover; in fact everything possible...
...been very severely criticised by Mr. "Bob" Cook, the trainer, but as this is an annual occurrance, it does not carry much weight with it in forming an opinion of the crew. He says in brief that the watermanship is good and in advance of former years, but the stroke is very short and far from the long sweeping swing that has brought victory to Yale for the past few years. The men do not keep time, and they manage their slides poorly. They have fallen into the habit so fatal to success, of coming up hard...
...time by a eight, the crew in former years having been composed of but six men. The candidates for the crew have been under the charge of Courtney, the well-known oarsman, and he feels confident that Cornell will put a good crew on the water. He describes the stroke as the "get there" variety used by Hanlan, O'Conner and Teemer...
Commodore Psotta, of Cornell, the amateur champion single sculler of America is going to England early in May to row for the diamond sculls at Henley. Gardner of the Oxford crew and Nichols stroke of Cambridge will compete with him. He will try to enter the four-mile Wingfield sculls in the middle of July and will go from there to the German regattas and the exposition race at Paris...