Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland's crew was composed of Larry Butt, stroke; Wally Reed, 7; Fred Armstrong, 6; Sam Goddard, 5; Henry Hoffstot, 4; Lucian Wulsin, 3; Carten Dinwiddie, 2; Dick Brainard, bow; and Jack Reagan...
Keeping its stroke down to below thirty for a good part of the race, the Cornell sight pulled ahead slowly with their most comparatively free of water. The failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering...
Graves was well down in the qualifying lists, with a 78, but he literally took the stiff Oakley course apart Saturday. Captain Jack Barr was his nearest pursuer, and a distant one at that with a 74-76--150. The nine stroke winning margin which Graves had even surpassed the record of present national amateur champion Willie Turnesa, who reigned over the Eastern Intercollegiate golfers for three years...
Bill Rowe found it hard to settle the stroke below 33 for the first mile as Navy pulled alongside. It was finally lowered, but never could it build up more power than the Middies boat which measured off the same time. Finally the finish neared: Bill Rowe raised the stroke to a powerful 36 hole seemed to leave the Navy standing stil...
Between the puddles: the shift of stroke and two men on the Navy crew, found the Middles rowing an entirely different race, a week start and finish, but a strong middle race . . . Ptomaine poisoning ravaged the Penn crew this week leaving them a meagre 12 hours of practice. They still rowed a strong finish race and almost nabbed Navy . . . The Penn Freshman had a tragic finish: ahead of the Plebes, a crab threw them out of joint near the finish