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Word: strokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of rough water so it was hard to really jack it up," senior stroke and captain Gordie Gardiner said yesterday...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Heavies Top Navy, Penn in Adams Cup | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...were a little more careful than usual and our stroke was a little lower, but Navy and Penn were catching crabs [improper oar entries into the water which slow or even stop a boat] right and left, so we had to be careful," Gardiner added...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Heavies Top Navy, Penn in Adams Cup | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...addition, Huntsman changed the rigging of the boat, switching from a starboard to a port stroke, and thus elevating Kathy Kirk to stroke from her seven seat position...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: New Faces Pace Lights Past Cornell and Williams | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Radcliffe boat jumped out to a quick three seat lead at the start and continued to increase the bulge, taking advantage of a high (41-stroke) cadence set by Peterson during the first 500 meters of the course...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: New Faces Pace Lights Past Cornell and Williams | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...rowed, most of us, the hardest race we ever rowed," stroke Jeff Brown said after the race. Harvard tried to blow Yale out early, starting at a cadence of 42 strokes per minute and settling at a very high 37 for the duration of the race. But Yale did not go away. At the 800-meter mark, where the course curves. Harvard only held the four-seat edge which it had in the staggered start...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Yale Charge Disarms Lights | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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