Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University.--Bow, Tredell; 2, Marburg; 3, Morgan; 4, Lewis; 5, Sinclair; 6, Woolverton; 7, Jackson; stroke, Mine; cox., Scull...
Freshman.--Bow, Chadbourne; 2, Hayden; 3, Darnell; 4, Leigh; 5, Ball; 6, Thorpe; 7, Connor; stroke, Scull; cox., Lesser...
...rowed the whole distance, while the Junior crew picked up the yearling boat at the half mile mark and raced the University men over the latter part of the course. The second crew was intended as a pacemaker for the first and, while it was fresh, rowed a lower stroke than that set by Amory. In the final stretch, however, when the seconds spurted and the crews were rowing stroke for stroke Captain Appleton's men held their own, finishing about three quarters of a length in the lead...
...Cottage Farm Bridge the University eight got off to as pretty a start as it has shown at any time this year. For the first five beats Amory was rowing stroke for stroke with Wiesman, but after that the 1925 combination dropped to around 32 while the University held to about 36 or 37. As a result the first shell forged into a lead of about three quarters of a length in the first 200 yards, and when the beat dropped to about 32 and 27 for the University and Freshmen respectively, Amory put a length of open water between...
...second eight picked up the race, handicapped by this two length lead, and, after spurting so that open water no longer showed between the shells, held its own, rowing a somewhat lower stroke. On the final stretch, however, it could not pull up on the first eight. The Freshmen, who had rowed at rather a low stroke for the whole distance, trailed by about three lengths. The distance to the Harvard Bridge, which is only a few feet short of a mile, was covered in 5 minutes and 3 seconds...