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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...Wind a Handicap...
Practice during the forenoon was very much hindered by a strong northwest wind, which kicked up a shorp chop in the river. All the boats took short paddies, however. The row was delayed for some time when Harwood, at 4 in the University crew, broke his rigger while holding his oar deep to steady the boat in a launch's wake...
...wind subsided during the afternoon, and by 7 o'clock the water calmed enough for all the boats to go out again. The University crew had a time trial over the regular four-mile course, and although the work was satisfactory, no time was given...
Harvard Training Quarters. Red Top., Conn., June 4, 1914.--Owing to the rough water, a strong wind and steady rain, today's practice was very light. The morning practice, which Coach Wray directed from his single, consisted of a few short-brushes between the Freshmen and the second crew, in which the latter showed a slight superiority. The boat of the Freshman four filled with water and sank just as the float was reached. In the afternoon the crews paddled down to the Navy Yard, which is the half-way mark in the course. This time the Freshmen had several...