Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual Harvard-Yale rowing regatta will be held on the Thames, near New London, Conn., on Thursday, June 27. The Freshman eights will start under the New London railroad bridge at 10 o'clock in the morning and will row upstream for two miles, finishing at the Navy Yard. Directly after the finish of the Freshman race, the University four-oared crews will start at the Navy Yard to race upstream. They will finish near the west shore of the Thames, opposite "Red Top." The race between the university eights is scheduled to start in the afternoon...
...Blagden '09, coxswain has had experience of five races on the University crew this year and last as well as one on his Freshman class crew last year in the Beacon Cup Regatta. He trains down fairly light before a race and has the confidence of the entire crew. His steering is not always what it ought to be, but on the whole he is above the average University coxswain...
Harvard's Freshman crew is expected to win the first race of the day in the Regatta. The crew has been rowing well since a week before the men left Cambridge. Bacon at stroke is a reliable man and can row a fairly fast clip when necessary. Moreover, the Harvard Freshmen are a heavier and a smoother rewing crew than the Yale 1910 boat. They are not as strong as either the 1908 or the 1909 Freshman crews, but row together excellently...
...Freshman crew, which represented the University at the American Henley regatta at Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, won second place in the Second Eight-oared race by defeating the Pennsylvania freshmen by three feet. The Yale second crew, which was the only other crew entered in this race, won in 6 minutes, 54 4-5 seconds...
...race, the New York Athletic Club crew defeated the eights representing the Batchelor's Barge Club and the University of Pennsylvania, in the order named, and also lowered the record for the course of one mile and 550 yards, by 2 4-5 seconds. A second feature of the regatta was the defeat of the Cornell, Pennsylvania and Georgetown crews, which entered the Junior Collegiate Eight-oared race. The Yale second crew, immediately after winning the Second Eight-oared shell race, also took first place in this event...