Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...start the third crew was given thirty seconds and the second ten seconds over the University crew. Both the second and third crews took a racing start, but the University eight started off at a slow stroke of about 30. The second crew immediately began to gain on the third before the Boylston Street Bridge was reached, the University eight just holding its own. At the next bridge the third crew was only a length and a half of open water ahead of the second boat and the position of the University crew had not changed. After passing the third...
...Bridge the University and second crews hugged close to the Cambridge shore and went inside two rafts anchored about one hundred feet off shore, while the third crew passed outside both rafts and was passed by the second crew. Just after leaving the rafts the University crew raised the stroke to 33 for a time and further cut down the lead of the second crew to only two lengths of open water, this stretch being the first time the crew showed good form and got into the water quickly. It was just after this that the crew lost three lengths...
University crew--Stroke, Cutler; 7, Waid; 6, Newton; 5, Bacon; 4, Strong; 3, Metcalf; 2, Leslie; bow, Sargent; cox., King...
Second crew--Stroke, Forster; 7, Hooper; 6, Higginson; 5, Maxwell; 4, Waite; 3, Loring; 2, Parker; bow, Anderson; cox., Voorhees...
Third crew--Stroke, Wiggins; 7, Coe; 6, Peabody; 5, Beane; 4, Cudahy; 3, Hoar; 2, Richardson; bow, Shillito; cox., Kempton...