Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale crew will go to New London about June...
...present Yale freshman crew is the heaviest freshman crew Yale has ever had. The average weight is 167 pounds...
...Yale crew and their positions in the boat have now been definitely decided upon. The eight is composed of the following men: Bow, Rogers, '90, S.; 2, Gill, '89; 3, Brewster, '91; 4, Hartwell, '89; 5, Corbin, '89; 6, Woodruff, '89; 7, Allen, '91; stroke, Caldwell, T. S; coxswain, Thompson, '90. They are all old 'varsity men with the exception of Rogers and Allen, but these latter have had considerable experience on their class crews. One trouble with the way the crew is seated is that the two bow men are ten pounds heavier than the two in the stern...
Yesterday we published a letter from the captain of the Yale freshman crew asking that Harvard consent to Yale's rowing in the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, stating that Columbia had expressed her willingness to row a three-cornered race...
...insist on this view of the question. It is not because we do not wish to row Yale, far from it. Harvard would be only too glad to row the Yale freshmen this year, if possible, but Columbia must be beaten, and in admitting a third crew we endanger our chances for success...