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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SARATOGA, July 18, 1874.After the conduct of the Yale University Crew, not only during, but also at the conclusion of the race just completed, the Harvard University Crew refuse to entertain any challenge whatever from the Yale University Crew...
...time to begin the stroke properly, but must make a wild grab at the water. Moreover, he is never in a position where he can draw a good, full breath, but is obliged to row with lungs half inflated, as fatal an error as could be made. Care should also be taken that no man gets forward too soon, as he has, in that case, to wait at full stretch till the others are forward, and all the air has gone from his lungs. If a man does this persistently, it is well to lengthen his stretcher...
...usage here, a long step would be taken towards securing its abolition elsewhere; and it seems eminently proper that the College which has taken the lead in widening the range and elevating the spirit of College instruction, in recognition of the increased maturity of its students, should also be foremost n discarding and discountenancing a tradition which could have sprung up only when students were mere boys, not yet come to that sense of personal dignity which shrinks alike from inflicting and from accepting a wound to self-respect...
...snapped, and Yale was out of the race. This foul took place according to a time calculation at the mile and a half point. Columbia had now a not-to-be-overcome lead, our crew having lost at least a dozen strokes by the foul. Wesleyan had also obtained a considerable lead, and, although the distance which separated the boats was steadily diminished during the rest of the race, Harvard did not again pass Wesleyan. Williams had meantime surprised everybody by taking the lead of the rear-guard, followed by Dartmouth, Cornell, Trinity, and Princeton last, whose time was twenty...
Cornell and Princeton will also send crews, but the men are not yet determined upon. The latter has ten men in training whose average weight is but slightly over 150 pounds...