Word: points
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hall then introduced Justice Loring. He spoke at some length on the advantage of rowing, saying that it makes a man exert himself beyond the point of which he at first never believed himself capable. Mr. Curtiss then gave a very witty account of the condition of rowing in his day. He finished by announcing that on next Wednesday at 3.30 o'clock as many alumni as possible will assemble in front of Claverly to march with a brass band of 60 pieces to Soldiers Field to see the last open practice before the Yale game. Mr. Hall, in behalf...
...cuts for the West Point game show how men give way to their quaint ideas about the right to cut, and the naive reasoning by which lazy men justify Saturday absences, argues well for a reconsideration of the present football schedule...
...game: referee, W. S. Langford, of Trinity; umpire, W. J. Edwards, of Princeton; field judge, E. K. Hall, of Dartmouth; head linesman, J. B. Pendleton, of Bowdoin. These are the same officials who acted in the Yale game last year with the exception that Pendleton replaces Hackett, of West Point, as head linesman...
...quickly. It was just after this that the crew lost three lengths or more by running into the launch. About 300 yards after the Cottage Farm Bridge had been passed, the University crew passed the third, and had made up two lengths on the second. The crew at this point began to row well getting a quick catch with a faster recovery, and making its weight and strength count at a stroke...
...quarter of open water ahead. The third crew was by this time well out of the race, about six lengths behind. Halfway from Harvard Bridge to the finish the bow of the University boat lapped the stern of the second crew shell, the University crew rowing at this point a hard 33. The second crew fought hard, however, and the University eight was now only able to gain by feet. About a quarter of a mile from the finish both crews were rowing stroke for stroke at 33 and absolutely even. Three hundred yards from the finish the University eight...