Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 14, 1908.--On Saturday Coach Wray gave the University eight their second time trial over the course within three days. The crew covered four miles up stream under very favorable conditions in 20 minutes, 45 seconds. The start was easy and the stroke was kept about 30 till the last half-mile was passed, then it was gradually raised until 39 was reached in the last hundred yards. As a whole the crews rowed only fairly well. The time was fast, but strong favoring tide and wind discounted this to a certain extent...
...University four-oar rowed two hard miles in the morning and three more in the afternoon. The Freshman four had light work in the morning and in the afternoon had a row for a short distance. O. R. Richardson '11, stroke, has been elected captain of the 1911 four...
...today was the race of a mile between the University and Freshman eights this afternoon over the last mile of the course. The two crews started even, and the University crew led by about three lengths of open water at the finish. Both boats went at a fairly high stroke all the way, the University eight raising it to 38 to the minute on the last few hundred yards. The University crew took the lead at the start and gradually increased it till the end. Both crews rowed well, but some faults were made evident by the work...
Walter Alexander '87, captain and stroke of the 1887 University crew, watched the practice of the men from launch this afternoon. Assistant Manager G. P. Denny '09 returned from Cambridge this afternoon, and Dr. W. E. Ladd '02, who is in charge of the physical condition of the crews, went to Boston. He will probably return tomorrow...
Freshman four-oar--Stroke, Richardson; 3, Jowett: 2, Smith; bow, Recee; cox., Coach Gill...