Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them Hamlin, of last year's university crew. Other changes have been made in the personnel of the crew, so that eighty-six will have a stronger eight this year than last. As a crew, they have taken to the water very well. They are rowing a fast, lively stroke, and pull the heavy 'varsity barge with comparative ease. Their own barge, the bow of which was stoven in at the scratch races last fall, has not yet been repaired by the boat club. The members of the crew are now at a training table at Memorial...
...Stroke. G. B. Harris...
...substitutes are Huddleston, 184 lbs., and Rogers, 177 lbs. The most noticeable fault of the crew is a tendency to rush down and hurry the stroke. Yesterday they rowed thirty-eight strokes a minute in a heavy barge. No. 1 jams his hands down on the shoot, No. 2 takes too much water on the beginning; No. 3 has too violent a shoot; No. 4 don't pull his oar through to the finish; No. 5 settles; No. 6 has an imperfect finish; No. 7 swings back too far; stroke dips too deep at the beginning...
...their freshman crew are now on the university crew, but sufficient good material remains in the class to make a very good eight. The men have shown considerable improvement, and are now rowing together in good time. The oars, however, are not carried through the full length of the stroke, and several men swing back...
...Stroke. F. Remington...