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Earlier in the afternoon Coach Howe divided the Freshman eight into two four-oared crews composed respectively of the men in the bow and the men in the stern. In a short brush with the Browne and Nichols four-oared crew, the 1924 bow four came in ahead of the stern four, while the schoolboys trailed...
Once in the Basin the three boats lined up for the brush, the first crew two lengths behind the second and third. Walter Amory, the 150-pound stroke acting captain for this week, kept the stroke at 26 for the first mile, and despite the higher stroke and the lead of the others, the first boat was even with the second at the Harvard Bridge. From then on, all crews heightened the stroke gradually, and in a well-timed spurt at the finish, the first crew, with a stroke which reached 40, pulled away from the rest and ended...
Coach Howe was well pleased with the result, and especially with the excellent showing of Amory at stroke. He is very optimistic concerning prospects for the season. What criticism he had to offer was mainly concerned with minor defects in the body swing of some men. After the brush he drilled the crews in getting the final drive with the legs at the end of their stroke which aids so greatly in carrying the shell forward between strokes. He also emphasized the spirit which the Freshmen seem to have and which is so necessary to a winning crew...
...October 20 a brush over the upper half-mile course between the dormitory eights was held, the boats finishing in the following order:--Standish, Smith, Gore. After the race, these crews were given boats with sliding seats. The next day all the crews were given their first experience on the water and by the twenty-third the coaches had a good idea of all those who were rowing and had them all graded on suitable crews...
...races were all fairly close, but the brush between 1923 B and 1922 B and the struggle between the Smith and Standish crews were particularly interesting. 1923 B managed to nose out its rival by a quarter of a length, while Smith just edged over the line inches in front of Smith in 6 minutes and 1 second, the fastest time of the day. Neither 1923 A or 1923 C reported in time for the race, though the former turned out to pace University A for a mile. The 1922 eight easily took the race for first class crews, defeating...