Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class and Club crew regatta on the Charles, the feature event was race between the three Freshman club crews. Closely contested the whole distance, the race was won by the Eliot boat by a quarter of a length margin over the Lowell eight. the latter in turn beat the Thayer crew by but half a length. Tow races for the upperclass crews followed the 1922 contest, the first of which was between Eliot 3 and Thayer 3. The former won by a full length, while in the succeeding event, in which Eliot 2 and Thayer 2 were the Competitors...
...Junior eight won the interclass championship of the river by a lead of a clear length and one-half over the Sophomore boat, and will, in consequence, meet the winning Yale class shell on the Housatonic two weeks from tomorrow. The first Eliot crew scored an easy victory over Thayer in the race for the Inter-Club championship, in a contest greatly marred by the handicap which the losing eight sustained when one of their seats split in two at the end of the first quarter-mile and left the shell with but seven active sweeps during the remainder...
...feature of the Eliot-Thayer race was the breaking of No. 5's seat in the Thayer boat at a moment when that eight was taking the lead and seemed to have a first-rate chance for a victory. This handicap proved too much for the Thayer oarsmen and their opponents rapidly increased their lead to three lengths, which they held to the finish...
...Eliot 2 vs. Thayer...
...oarsmen on class eights and to the first boats of Eliot and Thayer Clubs today is the day of days. The "championship of the river" for their respective type of shell is no mean thing. Beyond the Locker Room at Newell these races may be regarded as wasted energy. More gifted roommates may have found it difficult to understand the "training" for such events. But to the man with the sweep the crowds on Harvard Bridge will be there to see his race, even though railway construction in reality accounts for the uninterested onlookers...