Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...crew, as at present made up, is as follows: Bow, H. D. Daunt, B. N. C.; 2, S. F. Bayley, Christ; 3, W. H. Greenfell, Balliol; 4, G. F. Burgess, Keble; 5, J. W. Booth, Pembroke; 6, R. H. Pelham, Magdalen; 7, H. B. Southwell, Pembroke; Stroke, W. A. Ellison, University...
...Marriott of last year's crew will, however, row stroke in the race; and Messrs. Mulholland and Cowles, also of last year's crew, will ultimately be in the boat. The coxswain is not yet chosen...
...couple of years to acquire that graceful, powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry forward again, and waste more strength in one stroke than the old men do in ten. To row well, as to do well anything worth doing, requires long, faithful practice. If our readers don't believe it, let them go down to the boat-house...
...this time I caught sight of the "Varsity" again, as they swept down the river, helped on by the tide; and as, after shooting the bridge, the stroke quickened and the boat came swiftly towards the float, a voice at my elbow said, with a strong Scotch accent, "The lads is pulling a bit hard to-night," and the bluff old boat-builder smiled approval. "Let her run!" comes sharp and clear from the boat, the machine-like action stops, the boat glides up to the float, out come the oars, and eight hearty-looking fellows after them, - fellows full...
...ease, then they straighten up and sit for an instant as rigid and still as so many marble statues. "Ready!" says the coxswain; the eight backs reach out. "Go!" Up come the heads together, and away they go up the river, around the bend with a long swinging stroke, the crimson blades flash in the sunlight as they dip the water, and the regular "swash, swash," of the stroke floats down the river. It was high tide, and from the balcony I could see the boat glide past the piles and through the bridge, shoot on past the gas-house...