Word: wind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course is less than half an hour by trolley from the university. Rough water here is exceptional, and the river is protected from wind from nearly every direction. It is not spanned by a bridge, and there is no obstruction of any kind. It is available not only for crew practice, but for, intercollegiate regattas...
First half-hour--Harvard wins the toss and selects the wind. Arnold kicks off for Yale, sending a long kick down the field. Leeds springs a trick not known at Yale: he kicks the ball back again. Yale again kicks and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks the goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field. Yale kicks off. Seamans runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop...
...Williams, 2d, '16 won the Interclass Tournament for the Seniors by defeating H. G. M. Kelleher '18 in the final match by a score of 6-3, 4-6, 6-0. Williams superiority lay chiefly in his ground strokes. Both men were hampered by the cold weather and brisk wind...
Perfect weather with little wind on Saturday made conditions for running...
...side during most of the race, but a hundred yards from the finish Smith spurted and managed to shoot over the line a bare quarter-length ahead. Standish finished far in the rear. Smith's time was 5.36 which is very good for the course, though a slight following wind aided the oarsmen...