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...letter to his paper on the prospects for the Yale-Harvard race next summer. He says: "While Yale and Harvard have trained differently, and have rowed a different stroke, both as regards style and rapidity, one thing seems to have been satisfactorily demonstrated, which is, that the most experienced crew is pretty sure to win." A tie is to be disposed of at the next race, continues the correspondent, for Yale defeated Harvard in '76, '80 and '81, and Harvard defeated Yale in '77, '78 and '79. In 1876 both crews were new to the eight-oared plan...
Bancroft coaches the 'Varsity at 4 and the senior crew at 5 o'clock every afternoon...
...Varsity crew rowed yesterday in the following order; Cabot, bow; Sawyer, 2; Chalfant, 3; Hammond, 4; Perkins, 5; Hudgens, 6; Clarke, 7, and Curtis, stroke; Capt. Bancroft acted as coxswain and coach...
...debt, we believe, and from the money received last year has suitably furnished the gymnasium meeting-room. The calls from different associations upon these funds will probably be numerous enough to secure the easy disposal of the money, but the large expenses attendant to the 'Varsity Crew, and the importance of supporting it, would seem to give it a prior claim upon any gratuity the Athletic Association may have to offer...
Quite a number of freshmen are working regularly in the gymnasium for positions on the crew. From the quality of the men working we dare to predict a very fine crew...