Word: tides
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This being the case, a very small margin may decide the outcome. While it can hardly be demonstrated in any given case that vociferous cheering has won victory, yet there have undoubtedly been numerous contests in which the enthusiasm of the spectators has swung the tide. Robustly audible support from the stands shows a team that it is not fighting altogether alone, nor altogether for itself--makes its best a little better. Behind the players is something more powerful than they,--the University...
...together getting used to rowing a high stroke for a short distance. In the afternoon, all the crews went down below the Navy Yard and back, the second rowing the Henley distance one mile and 500 yards at a high stroke. The time was slow being against wind and tide. Several members of the graduate rowing committee visited camp this morning. White has been selected to fill the vacancy in the Freshman squad...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 9, 1914. This morning's rowing was featured by a half-mile brush up-stream between the first and second University crews and the Freshman eight. The ebbing tide and a light northeast wind made conditions fairly fast. At the finish line, each boat over-lapped the other, coming in in the order named above. Two minutes and twenty seconds was the unofficial time...
...races were run off in the afternoon. At 6 o'clock the northeast breeze braced around into the south west, and, with the tide at the flood the first and second University boats lined up on the two-mile mark. The race was close and exciting throughout. At one time the first was nearly a length ahead, but the second cut the lead to a question of feet at the finish just off the float. The unofficial time for the race was 9.30. In the next race, the substitute or "gentlemen's" four, consisting of the two University subs., Busk...
...Richardson going to 3. This afternoon the crews went out again about 6 o'clock, the University boats going down over the four-mile course and back at a low stroke. The crews went very well in smooth water and in a slightly favoring wind and tide. The Freshmen started a little later and returned with the University crew. Mr. Herrick now has entire charge of the second crew preparatory to the Henley race, and coaches the men from his own launch...