Word: watermanship
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Dana, Sturgis and Hartridge are the only new men. Hartridge rowed on last year's freshman crew at Yale. They are the lightest crew on the river. They jerk in their arms at the finish and do not sit up well. Their watermanship is very good. They keep excellent time. The men are very quick and row with a great deal of dash and spirit. Mr. W. A. Brooks has been coaching the crew...
...remaining men have not rowed, although equally promising, with those mentioned. Thus the only veterans left are Captain Storrow and Davis. The most promising candidates, with the exception of the foot-ball men, practised watermanship on the river in the fall. Since then the men have been at work with the rowing machines, the chest-weights and the dumb-bells, and have taken walks and runs out-of-doors. The great trouble is that owing to the many ideas about the stroke during the past five years, it is hard to get the men to row alike. There is also...
...opponents, during these winter months, have had practical watermanship in a tank, and the result is that now on the river their blade work is found to be excellent. When once on the river, our crew must make up for all drawbacks...
...these men only two or three have had any previous experience in rowing. The body work of the crew, as a whole, is very good, but the watermanship is still rather ragged...
...freshman crew have not yet appeared in their barge; they are learning the rudiments of watermanship in pair-oars...