Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that all the innocent "freshmen," high and mighty "Sophs," etc., are girls. It is a girl who says in your hearing "she got plucked." They are, girls who are playing tennis over there. It is a girl-crew out on the lake that is learning the new Yale stroke. But here the analogy ceases, no "mighty daughters of the plough" are trying their rushing qualities in that game which is so popular at Yale and Princeton, nor can we see any signs of a diamond. Botany appears to supersede all other field sports, and has prevailed to such...
...began the year under as favorable suspicious as ever attended a crew, went to pieces at New London, barely won a race from Columbia's wretched crew and were beaten by Yale, Everyone knows how Yale in spite of several new men in the boat and a radically changed stroke, by houest and intelligent work, backed by honest enthusiasm, turned out a crew which won honor for their college and themselves. Comment is unnecessary. In baseball, with by far the best nine in the league, we gave the championship to our old enemy. It is true that our nine...
...Much delay was caused by the drifting of the starting skiffs, and it was not until quarter past five that the word was given. The Columbia men were much lighter than the Harvard crew, but rowed in beautiful form. The start was even, Columbia rowing 42 and Harvard 39 strokes to the minute. It was soon evident that Columbia's stroke was more effective, as they drew away from the Harvard men with apparent ease despite the good rowing of the latter. From the end of the first quarter of a mile it was a procession for Columbia, who gamed...
...good. Both crews now settled down to steady work, and finished the first mile in nearly the same relative position as at the first mile. The second mile was rowed at about the same speed as the first by our crew, but the Columbia men quickened their stroke so that the third mile was begun with the boats almost...
...this point our bow oar showed signs of weakening, and the stroke and number four in the Columbia boat gave evidences of the terrible strain. The Columbia men at the end of the third mile were pulling 39 strokes...