Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yale freshman eight--Stroke, Walls; 7, Mills; 6, Hunt; 5, Wodell; 4, Austin; 3, Coates; 2, Hoyt; bow, Smith; cox, Cass...
Harvard Freshman four--Stroke, Maxwell; 3, Hadden; 2, Loring; bow, Forster; cox., Adams...
Yale freshman four--Stroke, Morse; 3, Roberts; 2, Brainard; bow, Hunsiker; cox., Buist
...crews had left the river, and went downstream as far as the Navy Yard in the launch. On account of the rough water the crew climbed into their shell just below the Navy Yard and rowed upstream over the last two miles of the University course. Bacon kept his stroke about 30 to 32 until the last half-mile, when he raised the pace to 34. The crew as a whole did not row as well as it has for the past few days. The men on the starboard side of the shell all pulled short at the finish...
...University eight rowed downstream about a mile and a half this morning accompanied by Wray in his single scull. A moderate stroke was maintained and the boat went better than it has at any other time this year. In the afternoon, however, the showing was less satisfactory. The crew went downstream again to the Navy Yard and back in long stretches--and one half-mile was rowed with a stroke of 38, which was raised to 40 in the last 100 yards. The boat travelled better with the fast stroke than it did with the slow. Nevertheless, the work...