Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...backs and arms. 'And you didn't even use your legs much, either,' he added, with a smile. He told me that he didn't favor giants for the boat, though he thought that had Bacon's great crew of giants in '65 known how to row the new stroke their performance would have been marvellous. A sixteenth-of-an inch wire, he said, was stronger than an inch-and-a-half rope, meaning that the texture and not the size of muscle did the business in a boat...
...three feet deep in the very midst of the path. Be this as it may, the college authorities have at last awakened to the fact that it would be cheaper to lay board walks than to hire a fleet of gondolas for the rest of the winter. This grand stroke of economic policy has long been awaited by the students, and now enmasse they thank the powers who have fulfilled their desires. Hereafter, we trust there will be no need of wearing rubber boots on warm, sunshiny winter days when the snow and ice are rapidly melting...
...Should not go back too far. Must keep a better grip with both inside and outside hands. His rowing is not firm enough. Is apt to jerk at his stroke...
...Stroke - Must be careful not to hang. Settles at the finish. Should keep a good grip with outside hand...
...University crew. Captain Cook rowed on the University Crew in 1872, which was defeated. He then came to the conclusion that he could obtain some good points from the English University crews and accordingly paid a visit to Oxford and Cambridge in '73, with a view to learning their stroke. The result of his visit was the famous "Cook stroke," a combination of his own ideas and those of the Englishmen. He has worked faithfully with the crews since his graduation, and has done more to raise the standard of rowing at Yale than any other man. The dinner...