Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rowing. There are now twelve candidates: the eight which has been rowing together for the past few weeks and four substitutes. The crew as it rowed yesterday was: bow, Staunton '90; 2, Clarke '91; 3, Sanford '90; 4, Longworth '91; 5, Finley '91; 6, Tilton '90; 7, Hutchinson '90; stroke, Herrick...
...March Outing appears the first of a series of papers on "The Evolution of Form in College Rowing," written by Mr. E. M. Garnett. The subject of the first paper is "The Harvard Stroke." In it the various changes which the Harvard stroke has undergone during the past five years are carefully described. The article explains fully the reason for Harvard's ill success since 1885 and so is very interesting. We quote a part of the article criticizing the '88 stroke and comparing it with that rowed...
...overboard all those principles which, it is supposed, had won Harvard many a splendid victory. An entirely new system of rowing was inaugurated, and there was much grumbling and dubious head-shaking at the issue. Yale, on the contrary, was highly elated at Harvard's adoption of the "professional" stroke. Her crew, be it said, was deemed so strong as to earn the appellation of the "Yale giants," while Harvard's was not only unusually light, but, with two exceptions, was composed of men who had never before sat in a 'varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority...
...moment Harvard's blades gripped the water every man in the boat, with a spring from the stretcher, and simultaneous heave of the shoulders, threw his whole weight into the oar, and kept it there until the stroke was finished. The blades were covered throughout the stroke and remained in the air as short a time as was consistent with the avoidance of "rushing" the slides. There was hardly the slightest perceptible "hang" of shoulders or hands at either end of the stroke. Although the body work was not all that could be desired, the "watermanship" or action...
...crews. On Monday the crew took its first meal at the training table, and from now up to the date of the race the men will keep in strict training. Of the eleven candidates only three rowed in last year's boat but Caldwell who is trying, rowed as stroke in '87. The names of the men are given below, the first four of whom have rowed in a 'Varsity boat before. Woodruff, '89, (captain); Hartwell, '89, S.; Brewster; Caldwell, T. S.; Allen, '91; Ferris, '91; Harrison, '90; Ischam, '91; Newell, '90; Mosle, '89; Rogers, '90, S. Thompson will occupy...