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...University crew the prospects for next year are very similar to the prospects for this year's combination. Three men will be lost out of the eight by graduation and one out of the four-oar. Farley's place at stroke will be the most difficult to fill satisfactorily. G. G. Bacon '08, the present stroke of the University four-oar, and his brother, E. C. Bacon '10, stroke and captain of the Freshman crew, will be the most likely candidates for the place. Number four will not be so difficult a place to fill, when R. L. Bacon...
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Eliot Farley '07, of Cambridge, stroke, prepared for College at Volkmann School, where he stroked the school crew. In his Freshman year he stroked his class crew. In 1905 he was on the University four-oar. He is 20 years old, weighs 158 pounds and is 5 feet 11 inches in height...
...prospects for winning all the races except the University four-oar are fairly good this year. Since going to New London all the crews have shown considerable improvement, especially the University eight. With the warmer weather that has prevailed since the men left the Charles, Coach Wray has been able to make their form much smoother, and has aided them in getting together in a way that was impossible so long as the raw weather continued...
YALE CREW QUARTERS, GALES FERRY, CT., June 19, 1907.--The Yale crews had light work again today. In the morning the two eights rowed downstream about two miles and back in long stretches, and the four-oar crew had a race for about a mile, defeating the freshmen nearly a length. In the afternoon all the crews went out later than usual. The university and freshman eights rowed upstream a short distance and turned, proceeding downstream about a mile and a half in fairly long stretches. Both fours had light work...