Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present champions will be on hand today to defend their laurels. In the 100-yard breast stroke R. L. Vonckx '31 is favored to repeat his victory of last year; the only man who has given evidence of furnishing him with opposition. Beecher Moore '32, finished third in the fraternity meet on March 26. E. A. Hill 3L, the other defending title-holder, will be up against a harder task if he is to retain the 100-yard back stroke honors. He is facing a field of at least eight men, including Fred Lewis '32, winner of the 50-yard...
...from Putney to Mortlake. It was the centenary of the famous struggle between the light blue and the dark. Forty times had impudent Oxford won. Thirty-nine times victory had gone to Cambridge. Once, in 1877, the judges could name no winner, for the crews finished together to the stroke−a dead heat...
...broke through a light fog as the rival strokes dipped their blades. There was a hush−then cheers. For a moment the lighter Oxford crew drew ahead, with nervous high strokes. Another hush. Then the light blue, settling into regularity, caught up and moved on. At Craven Steps, marking the mile, Cambridge led by three-quarters of a boat-length, stroking 30 to the minute against Oxford's 32. At Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths...
...first fifteen strokes the Junior eight took the lead over the other two crews, but by the time the half-mile mark was reached the Sophomores had gained the lead, closely followed by the Seniors. At the Harvard Bridge the Senior eight raised the stroke and pulled steadily ahead of the Sophomore crew till they had a length's margin at the finish line. The Juniors took the third place when the Seniors jumped into the lead at the bridge, and dropped behind slowly to finish a little over a length behind the Sophomore eight...
...yard back stroke...