Word: stretchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard try to do, while as a matter of fact Yale and Harvard row very differently from the English crews. This difference is inevitable from the difference in English and American rigs. The Yale and Harvard crews are rigged practically alike. The characteristics of their rigging are the short stretchers, and slides as long as a man naturally can use and varying for each man. In England every stretcher is fixed at an angle of 45 degrees and the exact number of inches the crew can slide fixed by the coach. In the Oxford and Cambridge crews this is from...
...before the slide and carries the slide forward with it, both being slow and steady, especially the slide, and the forward movement both of slide and body must end at the same moment. In the moving forward let the body be well balanced, the feet planted firmaly against the stretcher, and the inside arm constantly moving against the oar and extending it. This will keep the button up. When fully forward in which position the knees should be open to about the breadth of the chest, the oar, which ought to have been gradually coming to the water...
...Garnet, in speaking of the Harvard Stroke, says: "The Storrow stroke is from beginning to end one big smooth heave, and from the moment the oar enters the water until it reaches the air, the oarsman is almost standing on the stretcher. In direct contrast to the English stroke, his weight is not resting heavily on the seat, or at eight angles to the direction of the boat. Moreover, the boat is rigged close; the stretchers are not more than twelve inches from the end of the slide; the slides are lengthened, too, from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches...
...moment Harvard's blades gripped the water every man in the boat, with a spring from the stretcher, and simultaneous heave of the shoulders, threw his whole weight into the oar, and kept it there until the stroke was finished. The blades were covered throughout the stroke and remained in the air as short a time as was consistent with the avoidance of "rushing" the slides. There was hardly the slightest perceptible "hang" of shoulders or hands at either end of the stroke. Although the body work was not all that could be desired, the "watermanship" or action...
...Rows very loosely. He drops forward at full reach and meets at the finish. He should sit up and use his stretcher more...