Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...send good oarsmen to Harvard, and a recent article in the Exonian suggests a system which deserves notice. The writer says: "The thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love for P. E. A., or some kindly interest in its students) to come up here...
...Coolidge, stroke of the senior crew, may be unable to row for several days yet owing to injuries received while tumbling in the gymnasium last week...
...these columns within a few days, so that a repetition is unnecessary. The crew is somewhat lighter than last year, owing to the loss of Mumford, Woodward and Wesselhoeft; still the eight will average between 158 and 160 pounds. They are rowing with slides, and with a slow stroke - about 27 to the minute. As a general thing the form is excellent for this time of the year. The catch is firm and sharp, and the time in general is good, although there are one or two men who are apt to get tired, and break up the uniformity...
...sophomores are at present rowing as follows: Bow, Mills, 145 lbs.; 2, Sutton, 158 lbs.; 3, Homans, 163 lbs.; 4, Bowen, 156 lbs.; 5, J. E. Thayer, 158; 6, Batten, 170 lbs.; 7, Storrow, (capt.) 163 lbs.; stroke, Keith, 161 lbs.; cox., Whiteside; substitutes, Hansen, 155 lbs., E. D. Marsh, 160 lbs.; average, 159 lbs. This crew is rowing at present with the slides, about 29 strokes per minute. The general appearance of the crew, looking "bows on" is very irregular, several of the men swinging out of line continually; furthermore only half of the crew get a decisive snap...
...freshmen are rowing as follows: Bow, Upham, 138 lbs.; 2, Vogel, 154 lbs.; 3, Latham, 139 lbs.; 4, Hartley, 170 lbs.; 5, Barnes, 175 lbs.; 6, Borland, (capt.) 177 lbs.; 7, Hamlin, 176 lbs.; stroke, Harris, 157 lbs.; cox., C. F. Bigelow; average, 160 3/4 lbs. Ayer (154), the regular number three, is temporarily laid up. There are also four extra men who row in the evening - Delafield, Guild, Boyden and C. A. Brown. The crew have been on the slides about two weeks, rowing a rather fast stroke, about 31 or 32 to the minute. The crew...