Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long lead over what would otherwise have been a dull monotony of rudimentary work. At the end of the fall two well developed crews finished the practice and remained over the intervening months so that the same men were there to start with at the beginning of the final stretch...
Monday, September 20, is the date set by Captain R. T. Twitchell '16, of the cross-country team, for all long distance men to report. Coach Alfred Shrubb will be on hand to start the men on the long stretch of work before the race with Cornell...
...Freshman crews continued their practice on the Thames today, no shift occurring in any of the three boats. The first and second University crews took a two mile paddle down the river and back this morning. This afternoon all three crews rowed down-stream over the three-mile straight stretch in a practice spin, but no time was given out. Coach Wray also took the men out for pair-oar work-outs, giving each one careful individual instruction...
...Pennsylvania at his heels. For 250 yards he led by one yard but Kauffman finally passed him and gave Lockwood, his team-mate, a two yard lead over E. A. Teschner '17. By a terrific spurt Teschner passed Lockwood, but was forced to give way in the final stretch, and Lippincott, the Pennsylvania captain, was given a slight lead over W. Willcox, Jr., '17, Harvard's third man, and barely maintained his advantage. In the last relay W. J. Bingham '16 made a game fight for the race with Meredith, the Pennsylvania anchor man, but was beaten by five yards...
...four-mile race was held yesterday between the first and second crews. The second crew was given three lengths at the start. The first crew closed up the distance by a spurt at the Anderson bridge, gained three lengths on the stretch to Harvard bridge and finished with this lead in spite of a good spurt by the second...