Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of the fact that the Technology yearlings suffered a serious handicap in their race Saturday when stroke Blair broke his slide halfway down the course, a race-off has been scheduled for Saturday, May 13. The two University crews are booked to meet the first M. I. T. eights on this date, and it is planned to hold the Freshman contest the same afternoon, immediately preceding the Varsity races. The yearling course, however, will be over a mile and seven-eighths stretch instead of the Henley distance...
...seating of the University 150-pound crew was announced yesterday as follows: Bow, Leonard Wheeler Jr. '22; 2, Elliott Perkins '23; 3, W. M. Tucker '23; 4, R. H. Thayer '23; 5, John Codman '22; 6, Donald McVickar '24; 7, Oliver La Farge '24; stroke, L. B. Damon...
...final trials before the crews are picked for the class crew races on May 10. Junior A after a short distance forged to the front and led the whole way winning in 5 minutes and 40 seconds by a length and a half when Garrison Norton '23 put the stroke up for the last stretch. Junior B came in second with the other three crews bunched close behind and Sophomore A slightly ahead...
...testimony of competent critics of rowing all tend to show that the Pennsylvanians have developed two very powerful crews which are well suited to short distance rowing of the kind necessary in the mile and five-sixteenths race. In the University race against Yale the Red and Blue eight stroked by Mattison set a pace of 43 for the first half a minute and kept a high stroke throughout...
...take the water against the Tech yearlings next Saturday, is boated as follows: Bow.-S. B. Kelley, 166 2.-B. F. Rice-Bassett, 167 3.-T. L. Eliot, 175 4.-J. P. Hubbard, 175 5.-G. R. Johnson, 171 6.-H. G. Curran, 166 7.-H. M. Bohlen, 182 Stroke.-B. R. Weisman...