Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both were even on the last hole. On the last tee Peirson sliced his drive so that his ball was all but stymied by a large tree. By a very pretty approach shot, however, he was able to reach the green and hole out in four, one stroke less than that taken by his opponent. The Engineers, however, reversed the tables in the Ballard-Clement-Hodder-Williams foursome match and defeated the Crimson players by a one-stroke margin after being even-up at the last...
Starting off as usual at a very high stroke, the seconds gained steadily on the first crew in the early stages of the race and by the half-mile had pulled out a third of a length lead. Matthews, setting a long easy beat of 30, kept alongside the speeding seconds with comparative ease, and as the mile drew near the high stroke commenced to tell on the junior oarsmen and their advantage diminished perceptibly. Approaching the bridge the two shells were on even terms and as they shot out the other side University A led for the first time...
Going down the home stretch the first eight tried every means to get away, but the seconds, responding to Mumford's rapid stroke, refused to be shaken off and finished only a length in the rear. The time...
...combination class crew, comprising for the most part the old Senior A eight, bid fair to win the race at one time, being out in front by a third of a length at the quarter-mile, and had it not been for the fact that stroke Thompson lost the effective use of his stretcher at this, time, putting his boat out of the running, there is every reason to believe that this crew would have made the trip to the Schuylkill. Sophomore A gave the third crew a hard fight for the rest of the course and lost by barely...
Reading the lives of great men oft reminds us that it is frequently the historian who makes history, who sets up a hero with a pen stroke and dims some famous name with an erasure. It is his race, color, or previous condition of mental servitude which often leads him, in his vigorous renovation of the past, to arrive at some rather startling conclusions...