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Word: strokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Percy Bolton has been stroking the Yale crew for some time on account of the illness of Caldwell, who is the regular stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/20/1887 | See Source »

...peculiar interest. The men, to all appearances, are not as heavy as the crew men of last year, but they rowed in as good form as any one could expect. They pulled through to the finish and make a good catch. The time was very good. Two hundred strokes were rowed at thirty-two to the minute and then fifty at thirty-six. The crew was composed as follows: Stroke - R. F. Perkins, '89; 7 - H. W. Keyes, '87; 6 - C. E. Schroll, '89: 5 - J. T. Davis, Jr., '89; 4 - T. W. Wood, '88; 3 - A. P. Butler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Winter Meeting. | 4/4/1887 | See Source »

...freshman crews are composed of the following men: First crew; Amory, stroke; Hutchinson, Herrick, Sanford, Felton, Slocum, Matthews, anchor. Second crew; Crowninshield, stroke: Lothrop, Darling, Tilton, Richmond, Woods, Cabot, Hire; coxswain, Fales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/25/1887 | See Source »

...much the strength of the men, nor the style they row in, nor they way they jump. It is whether they have got themselves into that condition by long and regular repetition of this same stroke or jump that is going to tell in the test case. Whatever may be said to the contrary it is undoubtedly true that university teams, in the present condition of college athletics, have a regular business before them. There is no pleasure in playing a championship game of foot-ball with Yale College. And, perhaps, there is still less in rowing a race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Training for Athletics. | 3/22/1887 | See Source »

...following men now compose the '87 crew: Mumford, stroke; Burgess; Alexander, captain; Fiske, Coolidge, Bartold, Ayer, Dudley; Forchheimer, coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/18/1887 | See Source »

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