Word: weight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior eleven played two twenty-minute balrs, against the Cambridge Latin school yesterday afternoon on the field back of Divinity. Cambridge was made up of light men, but they played a remarkably plucky game. They out-played Harvard in team work but were not a match in weight. Cambridge passed well and their backs were trained. At the start Raymond's kick lost Ninety twenty yards. Rushes by McLeod and Aiken, however, regained what was lost and and brought the ball to the thirty yard line. During the scrimmages Cambridge tackled well. Crane got another fifteen yards, aided...
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...loggy;" they roll badly and therefore their time is bad; their blade work is sloppy. The members of the crew are very absent-minded, and this tends to increase the faults in their rowing form. When the oars are in the water the men lose time in getting their weight on, and do not sweep firmly through; the stroke is irregular, and there are not enough firm oars to keep the boat steady...
...nearly as long. Both however, are at present gaining and it is hopeful that by the beginning of the week they will resume their seats in the boat. The great disadvantage from the sickness of these men, aside from the lack of practice, is that they have lost more weight than they could well afford to, and in case the weather should become very warm before they have got fully back into shape, there is danger of their getting overtrained. All the men individually row well, but their work together is not at all what can be desired. The enief...