Word: swings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Crosby, 168 1-4 lbs., is too slow in getting down to the water on the catch, bucks and fails to keep oar in the watter till the finish, has a tendency to swing towards his oar, and does not get ready for stroke coming...
...general faults of the crew may be summed up as follows: A failure to keep time, pulling oars out on the finish, rushing slides and not holding them long enough on the catch, and a ragged swing...
...rowing yet on fixed seats and are not feathering. The object of this is to secure long body swing with arms straight and a firm finish. The time has greatly improved of late and the men are getting more snap at the catch. It looks now as if those defects which have caused so much criticism on Harvard's rowing will be remedied...
...Balliet. Hagerman, rowing 7, was on the Cornell crew last year, and, according to the Yale News, gives promise to be a fair one, although he has a number of faults at present. "The general faults of these men," says the News, "are lack of earnestness, complete absence of swing, poor time, and wretched watermanship...
...Curtis, 137. He has much life and dash, but does not swing from his hips. He breaks his arm too soon and meets his oar at the finish...