Word: watermanship
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Cummings, 7, keeps only fair time, and his watermanship is poor...
Vail, 6, is unsteady in his movements, and bad in his watermanship, but he is improving...
...family. Hence there is now but one substitute Lambert. Lately, however, Murchie and Irving have been doing some work and it is possible that one of them will go down with the crew as the second substitute. As a whole, the crew has made an improvement in their watermanship, although there are still many glaring faults. It is expected, however, that the steady work at New London, the morning and afternoon rowing will make the faults less noticeable and put the vim and precision into the stroke which is absolutely necessary for victory over the '95 crews of Yale...
...spite of the disagreeable weather during the past week, the 'varsity crew has continued to row from fourteen to eighteen miles a day, and as a result of this hard work, it has made considerable improvement. The coaching is still directed almost entirely to developing the oarsmanship and watermanship, no effect as yet having been made to develop speed. The watermanship of the crew however is by no means weak at the present time...
...crew is improving rapidly from day to day, and it seems probable that it may make a fair showing in the race a week from next Friday. Yale has a tremendously powerful crew that rows with perfect watermanship. But with all the advantages that Yale has, the Harvard crew does not feel discouraged and will do its best to keep Yale busy for the whole four miles...