Word: oars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale has discarded the Davis oar, and those now used by the University eight in practice are eight inches longer than those of last season...
...Association of Amateur Oarsmen has decided to hold four and eight oar shell races at the annual regatta...
...part from the desirability of being represented at Saratoga, four-oared rowing is too fine a sport to be neglected in the list of Harvard's athletics. Fours are very different from eights, and in many respects much more scientific. An eight-oared crew is much more difficult to get well together, but a four requires of its crew a thorough knowledge of watermanship, and a delicate control of the oar, which but few men who have rowed exclusively in eights ever possess...
...Patten, '86, who has never rowed on a crew before, is spoken of as quite promising. He is very strong and already handles his oar in unusually good form for a beginner. If Hyndman, of last year's crew can be induced to row he will probably induce Parrot also to take a seat in the boat with him, thus making four old 'varsity men in crew of 1884. Taking everything together, Yale will, in all probability, present a fine crew on the Thames next June...
...winning crew at the fall regatta and Appleton was the captain of the '86 freshman crew. Hyndman, '84, returns this term and a strong effort will be made to induce him to row. He was a member of the '83 university crew, and an old oar in a boat composed so largely of new men will be of great value...