Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of trying out new combinations. The eight is now seated as follows: Bow, John Codman '22; 2, H. S. Morgan '23; 3, A. H. Ladd '23; 4, M. E. Olmsted '22; 5, Lawrence Terry 3E.S.; 6, Captain L. B. McCagg '22; 7, T. T. Pond '21; stroke, L. B. La Farge '22; coxswain, E. L. Pierson...
...clock yesterday, Dr. Howe, Freshman crew coach, accompanied by Coaches Haines and Herrick, took the first three Freshman crews down to the Basin for a trial spin over the mile and seven-eighths course. Dr. Howe tried out the first crew at different strokes on the way down, ranging from a very slow even stroke below 20 to a short dash at 30 or better. In these dashes, the boat was at all times very evenly balanced and the Freshmen stood the test well...
Once in the Basin the three boats lined up for the brush, the first crew two lengths behind the second and third. Walter Amory, the 150-pound stroke acting captain for this week, kept the stroke at 26 for the first mile, and despite the higher stroke and the lead of the others, the first boat was even with the second at the Harvard Bridge. From then on, all crews heightened the stroke gradually, and in a well-timed spurt at the finish, the first crew, with a stroke which reached 40, pulled away from the rest and ended...
...will begin its training table this morning at Smith Halls dining room and twenty-seven men will be accommodated. All except the unclassified Crew were on the water yesterday. Ralph Wheeler '22 took the place of G. C. Smith '22 at 5 and R. H. Thayer '23 went to stroke in the 150 pound crew. The crew management announces that more coxswains are needed. Men wishing to come out will report at the Newell Boathouse in the afternoon...
...result of last week's work in trying out strokes for the first Freshman crew, Walter Amory has been chosen to fill the position. J. D. Jameson has been shifted into the boat at 2 in place of Standish Bradford, who now rows on Crew 2. The eight now is seated as follows: Bow, C. H. Hollister; 2, J. D. Jameson; 3, B. McK. Henry; 4, R. S. Hubbard; 5, C. J. Hubbard; 6, Parker Hamilton; 7, A. L. Hobson; stroke, Walter Amory...