Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...event of the trip. Then homeward they came; a glorious stop at Vancouver; a collision at night with a destroyer in the mists of Puget Sound; a review of the fleet; a terribly strenuous day in Seattle; indigestion; bronchial pneumonia; abrupt termination of the trip at San Francisco; a stroke of apoplexy?death. (TIME...
...Senior--Stroke, Lovell Thompson; 7, H. M. Watts Jr.; 6, W. C. Holden; 5, E. S. Washburn; 4, Samuel Reber; 3, W. M. Fairleigh; 2, Mason Hammond; bow, P. D. Trafford; cox., Joseph Sullivan...
...Junior--Stroke, O. L. Dane Jr.; 7, L. K. Macnair; 6, G. W. Goddard: 5, J. D. W. Blosser; 4, H. R. Gale; 3, Moorefield Storey; 2, E. A. Smith; bow, J. W. Lund; cox., B. A. G. Thorndike...
Sophomore--Stroke, Richardson White; 7, J. B. Olmsted; 6, L. J. Knowles; 5, R. S. Rilley Jr.; 4, George Bancroft; 3, R. S. Morse; 2, A. J. Weisman; bow, S. A. Buckingham...
Maintaining a slightly higher stroke throughout the race, the 1926 boat still had something in reserve when the Sophomore shell began to creep up, and was therefore able to hold its slight lead at the finish...