Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...record won is a tie-each college having row six races. Prior to the eight-oar contests the record was 17 to 4 in favor of Harvard. Beginning with the annual series, Yale won in 1876 by eight lengths. The following three years Harvard's crew, with Bancroft as stroke and captain in '77 and '78, and with Trimble as captain in '79, won all the races. In 1880, Yale won, and also in 1881 by six seconds. Capt. Hammond in 1882 and 1883 brought victory to Harvard. The 1884 crew lost. Capt. Storrow's crew won easily...
Despite all statements to the contrary, it is very probable that Caldwell will stroke the Yale crew again this year...
...whole, the crews must get more life into the stroke and recover slower. As compared to other Freshmen crews at this time of the year, the good men are doing about the same, and if they could get three or four more men to work, they would have a fair prospect before them...
...shell, which Mr. Frank Peabody ordered in England, was tried for the first time by Mr. Peabody, Mr. H. W. Keyes and Mr. R. C. Watson. The shell is a beauty, made so as to set low in the water and with two pairs of sliding seats so that stroke and bow may row either on the port or starboard side. The coxswain's seat is finely upholstered. The boat was made by the well-known Cambridge boat-builders, Swaddle and Co., and is a duplicate of the one in use at present by the Cambridge crew...
...very limited number of barges, the class crews are able to get out on the water only on certain days in the week. The candidates for the 'varsity crew are now reduced to thirteen, and has been at the training table since March 1st. Stewart, '88 S., who stroked the '89 crew in several races, began training last week, and is a very promising candidate for the position of stroke of the 'varsity, if his physician decides that it is safe for him to train. Caldwell, L. S., the old stroke, will probably not row this spring...