Word: rows
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Therefore it was decided last year that some other method must be devised by which more men could receive instruction, and be given a chance to row and to row in races. The Weld Boat Club, with a membership of about 400, was already in existence, and prospering. But it had no rival. There were the Weld class crews, but there was no really hard competition excepting among themselves. Under these circumstances the Newell Boat Club was founded, partly to relieve the great pressure at the Weld, but more especially to provide a strong rival for the Weld here...
...candidates for the university crew will be divided into four classes. All of the freshmen and all of those men who have become eligible to row only after a year's residence at Yale will constitute the first year class; all of the sophomores and all of those members of the graduate schools who took part in freshmen athletics last year will constitute the second year class; the juniors will form the third year class, and the seniors and all of the graduates of Yale now studying in the graduate departments will form the fourth year class. Each of these...
...Harvard last year. The candidates will be divided into class squads and each will be put under the charge of a head coach. This plan will be followed until the middle of March when the university squad will be selected and, as soon as the weather permits, will row on the harbor in fours or eights. The college crew will be formed and will probably have a race with some outside crew. Dr. Gallaudet '93, who coached the crew last year, has been officially re appointed head coach for the coming season...
...interest in rowing at the University of Pennsylvania this year is unusual owing to the possibility that the crew will be sent abroad next summer to compete in the Paris and Henley regattas. The outlook is very good, since six men and the coxswain of last year's crew will be candidates again this year. At a recent meeting of representatives of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell, it was decided to row again at Poughkeepsie in June. Invitations were extended to Wisconsin, Princeton, Syracuse, Bowdoin, Brown and Toronto to join in the regatta. Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia will enter crews...