Word: stroking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meets will open at 3.30 o'clock on March 26 with the fraternity contests. There will be five of these, including a 100-yard relay race, a diving "6", a 50-yard free style, 50-yard back stroke, and a 50-yard breast stroke. They will allow one more type of competition are staging close races in the basketball leagues...
...task which confronts Coach Brown at present is that of developing a stroke and a coxswain to take the places of John Watts '28 and C. H. Pforzheimer '28 who graduated last June. While the remainder of the men at present row on the same crew each day the strokes and coxswains are shifted continually in order to try their ability. At present it seems that the leading stroke candidates are R. I. McKesson '31, Stanley Swaim '31, P. H. Watts '31, C. N. Comstock '30, J. S. Wintringham '30, James Lawrence '29, C. McK. Norton '29, R. C. Timpson...
...present it is the task of filling the stroke and coxswain positions that is Coach Brown's chief problem. These positions were made vacant by the graduation of John Watts '28 and C. H. Pforzheimer '28 last June...
...Collins, 2OI½ Ibs., British, clumsy, looked down at one of his large feet last week and perceived that he had stove it right through the racing shell in which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged in 1906 just...
...advice before starting TIME. Not content with his general statement that it coul be done, he said that he had gone into detail as to how impossible such a venture would be. He then added, 'The only mistake in my estimate was that I had omitted their stroke of genius...