Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University crew won the eight oared race on account of superior endurance, and the ability of the men to keep well together throughout and follow a fast stroke in the spurt. Because of their lack of endurance the Yale crew could not back up their stroke, when he tried to quicken his pace in the last half-mile...
...rowed down stream against wind and tide. The freshman eight raced the university boat for the first two miles and was ahead at the mile flag, but then fell off, passing the second mile flag off the Navy Yard about a length behind. Both crews rowed a slow stroke, except near their finish. The university four-oar went about two and a half miles in short stretches down stream, but returned in one stretch rowing hard. The freshman four-oar had an easy seven-mile row down stream to Cow Point, and back to the quarters...
Howard Boulton '07, of New York City, stroke, prepared for college at St. Paul's School, where he rowed on the school crew. He stroked last year's four-oar and rowed on his freshman crew. He is 20 years old, weighs 152 pounds, and is 6 feet in height...
Carl Trueworthy Schuneman '07S., of St. Paul, Minn., stroke, is 20 years old, weighs 173 pounds, and is 6 feet 2 inches in height...
John Mayer, Jr., stroke, of Morristown, N. J., prepared at St. Paul's School, where he stroked the school crew. He is 18 years old, weighs 170 pounds, and is 6 feet 2 inches in height...