Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Since February 23, the date of the first work on the water, all three crews have advanced rapidly. The University crew, of late, has run the stroke up high on the last short stretch to the boathouse, and has seemed to move along fairly well. The second boat shows a good drive and dash. The third crew has suffered much from lack of a consistent order...
Second Freshman--Stroke, Trumbull; 7, Anderson; 6, Amory; 5, McCabe; 4, Leslie; 3, Frothingham; 2, Parker; bow, Smart; cox., Faxon...
Freshman crew--Stroke, Newton; 7, Metcalf; 6, Strong; 5, Higginson; 4, Smith; 3, Weston; 2, Richardson; bow, Wiggins; cox., Voorhees...
Second crew--Stroke, Richardson; 7, P. Withington; 6, Hooper; 5, Smith; 4, Waite; 3, Whitney, Marvin; 2, Forster; bow, Ellis; cox., King...
...Freshman eight has shown a marked development with this week's work. The first crew has been able to keep a fairly consistent order with the result that the boat is moving along better, and the early crudeness is being dropped. Newton at stroke and Strong at 6 seem to have been changes for the better. In the rest of the squad, with the possible exception of the second Freshman, there have been such repeated changes that the men are as yet more or less of an unknown quantity...