Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...GRADUATES' CUP RACE is announced for to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, on the Charles River course. There will be only three crews where there should be eight. The following are the crews: '74, Wheeler (stroke), Harding, Morse, Silsbee, Goodrich, and P. Dana (bow); '76, Otis (stroke), Bacon, Riggs, Nickerson, Green, and Weld (bow); '77, King (stroke), Bacon, Perry, Morgan, Leeds, and Lindsey (bow). '75 is not represented, and there are no second crews...
...Senior crew for the fall races will probably be as follows: Wheeler (stroke), Harding, Goodrich, Silshee, Burry, Dana...
...Silsbee, '74, Sanger, '74, Burry, '74, Riggs, '76, Swift, '74, cox. The second crew were Wetmore, '75, str., Appleton '75, Goodrich, '74, Harding, '74, Weld, '76, Prince, '75, Devens, '74, cox. This race was quite exciting. Wheeler's boat drew the inside, but Wetmore gave such a telling stroke as to keep a slight lead up to the boat-house; but in rounding the curve his crew lost, enabling Wheeler's crew to turn the stake first. Despite a tendency to exchange oars at the stake, the boats were impeded but a moment, and came down the course in good...
...partisans crowded excitedly down the banks. The announcements for the second, third, and fourth half-mile were the same, and were received with increased excitement. After that no one cared to look at placards, for the boats were in sight. First Yale was distinguished, pulling that long stroke, which looked like so little and told for so much. Then came Amherst, pulling a plucky stroke of forty to the minute, and about ten lengths behind Amherst came Harvard, pulling at about the same rate, but lacking Amherst's snap and vigor. In this order, and without much change...
...foremost with the blue scarcely discernible, while almost under their feet was clearly seen one of the most beautiful sights, - to a Harvard man if to no one else, - a crew wearing the magenta and spurting with a power that made the boat quiver and jump at every stroke, and all this with perfect regularity, for the brown backs moved together like clock-work. As they passed, a glance in a direct line over the stern of Harvard across the river clearly showed the backs of the other crews. Then Harvard stopped rowing, and in a short time after Yale...