Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crew will enter the triangular race with the following seating, unchanged from the M. I. T. race: Stroke, Dudley Merrill '26; 7, Richard Collins Jr. '26; 6, William Potter '26; 5, J. D. W. Morrill '26; 4, Hamilton Warren '26; 3, H. V. S. Ogden '27; 2, T. C. Sturtevant '27; Bow, Richard Jones '26; cox., R. J. Harper '25. The substitutes will be H. S. French '26 and H. E. Hedberg '27. The Crimson eight is a favorite for first honors in the lightweight race...
...This time she would have both hands free to manage her carpet bag." We may be inclined to smile at this as a sublime instance of what an unspoiled hand can do in expressing the last degree of desolation; but the artist must have his praise for a distinguished stroke...
...Matching stroke for stroke, the two eights swept down the course, with Captain Kelley's boat maintaining a slight lead. Although Pennsylvania for years has been noted for her sprinting crews, the Harvard eight equaled each Pennsylvania sprint, and at no time did the Philadelphia oarsmen assume the lead of more than a few feet...
...Junior University and Freshman races, the Red and Blue oars of Pennsylvania earned decisive wins, with Harvard second, M. I. T. third, and Cornell fourth. These races were shortened to the Henley distance because of rough water, and the Quaker eights displayed a powerful and a finished stroke in coming through a winner in both of these races...
Shortly before the Henley distance was reached there occurred the accident which effectually squelched Pennsylvania's chances. The oar-lock of Reeve, rowing at seat six in the Quaker shell snapped off, resulting from what appeared to be a crab, and after a few strokes, he let his oar go overboard, attempting for the balance of the race to pass the beat to the oarsmen behind him, going forward and backward on his slide with each stroke...