Word: stretchers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Biddle gets a hard catch but has been inclined to weaken on the finish. Captain Perkins, in spite of his late illness, is at present rowing the best oar in the boat. His blade is notably good and he gets a long body swing and steady drive from the stretcher. Heath, at 5, has gone off of late. He is a good worker and a strong oar, but does not catch the boat with the rest and rushes his slide badly. C. S. Derby 2M., who rowed bow on the '96 'Varsity crew, was tried at 5 yesterday...
...together in good shape at this point and gradually cut down the lead of the other boat. An eighth of a mile from the line it was nose and nose. Now one crew had the lead, now the other. Coleman who rowed in Goodrich's boat unfortunately slipped his stretcher but kept on pluckily in time with the rest. Very gradually and by the hardest kind of driving Perkins's men finally lifted their boat ahead, crossing the finish line just eight feet before Capt. Goodrich's crew...
...distinctive feature of Harvard's crew this year is the stand off the stretcher from catch to finish. It is an element of the stroke in which Harvard crews have been very deficient of late years. The body swing is very long. The leg drive beginning at the catch with the shoulders thrown on hard to gain a strong position. The pressure is increased through the stroke ending in a hard finish. There is no lift in the stroke as there was last year but a horizontal drive throughout. The hands are shot away quickly and the body swing taken...
Fennessy, who now weighs 175 pounds. is still at five, where he will very likely remain, as the order of the crew will not be changed unless it is absolutely necessary. The chief fault he has is that he shortens the stroke by not pulling through from the stretcher...
Stroke. Captain Thompson is slow at the catch and in throwing full weight from stretcher; he is also behind on the shoot...