Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coach will stroke Crew A this week as he has been doing for some time past, having Coaches Newell and Shaw direct the work from the launch. This regular rowing will continue until after the Princeton game, when the work will consist largely of rowing in four-oared crews as long as the weather permits. Coach Stevens lays considerable stress upon development of the individual and has done a great deal of work with the men in pair-oared shells and will continue this personal instruction in the four oared boats...
Crew A-Bow, Hoover; 2, Cassedy; 3, Mumford; 4, Johnson; 5, Raymond; 6, Henry; 7, Storey, R; stroke, Stevens; cox., Burnham...
Crew B- Bow, Boyden; 2, Milde; 3, Hollister; 4, Reber; 5, Storey, M; 6, Bohlen; 7, Eliot; stroke, Brown; cox., Carson...
...building a bridge across the Hudson at Manhattan. Then, carrying on the project for the Pennsylvania alone, he tunneled the North and East Rivers, and built the Pennsylvania Station and the famous Hell Gate Bridge. To this veteran, Mr. Coolidge confided his plans, or, rather, suggestions. At one stroke the President suggested that it would be possible to alleviate two of the major troubles now afflicting the country. He asked: 1) that freight rates on wheat for export be lowered to facilitate disposal of the wheat surplus abroad; 2) that freight rates on coal to Northeastern states and coal destined...
...same hard work that has characterized the practice of the three University eights since the cut last week was noticeable in yesterday's session on the river. For a while Coach Stevens took the stroke's seat in one of the crews to illustrate his points better. Yesterday the 16 inexperienced Freshman dormitory crews went out for their first row on the Charles, already beginning work with the interdormitory regatta on November 5 and 6 as the goal...