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...position. By this time the Ninety-four boat was unsteady, but Referee Peabody had grown tired of waiting and gave the word at 21 minutes and 24 seconds after 5, although the freshmen were not ready for the start. Naturally enough the freshmen fell behind and were fully a length and a half behind at the end of the first five strokes. Ninety-three had the lead the first few strokes but soon gave place to Ninety-two, Ninety-three being third. The seniors were rowing a quick, powerful stroke-fully thirty-eight to the minute-and almost...
...Crescent Boat House, the freshmen were rowing raggedly but after this point was passed there was a marked improvement in their form and gradually they crept up on the seniors, who were third at the Boat House, until they were barely a length behind. The juniors were over a length ahead of the sophomores at the Cresent and from here to the Harvard Bridge rowed in splendid form, thirty-eight strokes to the minute, and lengthened their lead over the sophomores and seniors (who were now very nearly nip and tuck) by half a length...
...with people eagerly peering over the ralling to catch a glimpse of the crews' positions. A clattering of feet from one side of the bridge to the other, and Ninety-two shot out from under the other side of the bridge, rowing her thirty-eight strokes and a full length and a half ahead of the other three crews which now came in sight, the seniors a quarter of a length ahead of the sophomores and the freshmen gradually closing in on the Ninety-three crew...
...evident to all now that Ninety-two did not care for anything but first place and this was made more manifest by an excellent spurt which she now made, rowing forty strokes to the minute, a spurt so effective that her lead was fully two lengths, five hundred feet below the bridge, and it was at about this place that the accident of the race occurred. Ninety-one and Ninety-three (a half a length behind the seniors) were both spurting, when unfortunately the senior boat-whose coxswain ever since the bridge had been steering on Ninety-three's course...
...Ninety-one crew directly in front of them, their prow touching the rudder of the Ninety-one boat. The result was that the actual finish of the crews was Ninety-two first by a lead of three lenghts over Ninety-one who were second; Ninety-four third, a good length behind the seniors, and a few feet only ahead of Ninety three, whose actual finish was fourth...