Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three men were tried at stroke on the Junior eight, Goes, Freeman, and Richards, setting the pace...
...women. In the past season she won the fancy diving championship (from a four-foot board), swam on the winning 400-yard relay team, and was runner up in fancy diving from a ten-foot board, and the free style swim at 100, 220 and 500 yards, the back stroke at 150 yards, and was third in the 50-yard free style. She is 16 years...
...task of developing a crew which could row his stroke effectively, Coach Muller's position has been unusually difficult. Starting out in the autumn with a mass of material at his disposal, he was faced with the problem of teaching his own methods to a group of men who, for the most part, had previously been drilled in at least two different systems of rowing, Coach Muller has had less than nine months in which to alter radically the rowing of every man on the squad...
Difficult to Find Adequate Stroke...
...chief problems of the past season has been finding an adequate stroke--one who combined, effectively the principles of the new system with the natural abilities necessary to the position. The recent shifts have given a definite answer to the stroke question and have also put the finishing ouches on a rapidly improving combination...