Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stroke - Spaeth...
...rowing had a precarious existence at American colleges, and there was no large body of graduate oarsmen on whom to lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous and ungrateful services of a "coach." it was only human that professionals should be paid to look after the stroke and diet of the crews. Professionals were at least kept out of the boat. There is no record like that of the Brasenose Oxford four in 1824, which contained two college men, a professional, and an outsider of attainments unrecorded by the muse of history...
...seat equalizes the men in the boat who differ one from the other in length of trunk and limbs, permitting a man with a short reach to slide a little further than another with long arms, so to catch the water at the same angle and pull through a stroke of the same length. Without the slide no amount of rowing together would equalize the stroke; the short man would have to catch later or finish later than the long man, the result of which is, of course, unsteadiness in the boat and diminution of speed; for racing craft...
...second 'Varsity crew is now rowing as follows: Stroke, Alexander, '87; 7, Parker, '89; 6, Perkins, '89; 5, Hale, '88; 4, Markoe. '89. 3, Knowles, '87; 2 Hebard, '89; Bow, Knapp...
...Wilcox, 158 lbs. bow; Charles O. Gill, '89, 168 lbs; John Rogers, Jr., '87, 165 lbs, captain; Joseph W. Middlebrook; '87, 165 lbs, George W. Woodruff, '89, 173 lbs; Fred A. Stevenson, '88, 172 lbs; George R. Carter, '88, S., 167 lbs; Ernest L. Caldwell, '87, 154 lbs, stroke; Thompson, coxswain. Substitutes - W. H. Corwin, R. M. Hurd and Samuel Cross. Five of the crew were in last year's 'Varsity eight and three were in the freshman crew...