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...freshmen that they still have hard work before them to put themselves in a condition to defeat their Columbia opponents on the Harlem. There is good material in the boat, but it seemed to a spectator that their stroke was too jerky to enable them to preserve their form. But they have still some time before them, which, if utilized to the utmost, will go far toward enabling them to win the approaching race. They probably receive their defeat of last Saturday in the proper spirit, and so far from being discouraged, will be only urged on to renewed efforts...
...were pulling 35, and the '85 crew 34. For about a quarter of a mile the face of the race did not change its features, and the Narragansetts were unable to better their lead, while it was very evident that their jerky stroke was beginning to tell on their form. The University Crew, on the other hand, made glad the hearts of every Harvard man who was there to see them give the familiar "old Harvard swing," that has so often brought victory to the crimson. For a while they kept their 35 stroke, but at about a quarter...
...proposed to form a foot-ball league among the New England colleges outside of Yale and Harvard; each college to play one game with every other, and the one winning the greatest number of matches to be champion for the year, Yale and Harvard are to be excluded, because the advantage they possess in being able to pick their teams from a number of candidates greatly in excess of any of the other colleges, added to several years of experience, at present practically precludes the possibility of others competing with them, with any chance of success...
...well nigh impossible to criticise the style and form of the Yale crew. All the teachings of "Bob" Cook have been thrown to the wind, and in their place we have the "Hillsdale" stroke. Swing there is none, and all that is aimed at is a fast stroke. The men vary but little from the perpendicular either at the beginning or end of the stroke, and the sole means of propulsion employed are the legs and arms. The former to push the slide back and the latter to finish the stroke by pulling the oar home. There is a very...
...crew who fails to row with a perfectly straight back, and as No. 2 is particularly strong on that point bow's faulty shape is rendered all the more conspicuous. With the faults of the bow and No. 4 corrected the crew would be as nearly perfect in form as it is possible to get an eight...