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...from that time on came into more and more prominence. Three years later the second race with Yale was won, and the first Harvard boathouse was built during the succeeding season. In 1859 and 1860 the University won from Yale and Brown on Lake Quinsigamond. The prow of the shell used in these races is now on exhibition in the Union...
...most radical feature of the present campaign to develop winning crews at Yale was the introduction of a new English-built, side-rigged shell, which has been given extensive trial in the fall work. The shell is an innovation in college rowing circles. The oarsmen, instead of sitting in a horizontal line over the keel of the boat, sit in zig-zag fashion in their sliding seats, a few inches to the right or left of the keel...
Several important changes have been made in the orders of the crews the past few days. Meyer has taken his old position at 2 in the first shell, Trumbull being shifted from 2 to 6, while Harwood was returned to his former position of stroke on the second. Morgan has taken his place at 7 in the first shell, L. Curtis going to 7 in the second. Carver, who has been rowing 7 on the second, has been shifted to 3, Apollonio going to 7 in the third shell. Saltonstall has displaced C. Weston at 5 in the second...
Although five men who rowed in the victorious shell at New London last June have been lost by graduation, all the members of the four-oared crew last spring are available this year, besides six from the Freshman boat. The veterans from the 1912 University eight are Captain C. T. Abeles '13, coxswain; A. M. Goodale '13, 4, who has been in the University shell for two years besides rowing on and captaining his Freshman crew; L. H. Mills '14, 5, on the University crew last year and captain of the Freshman crew two years ago; Q. Reynolds...
...probable that the Crane shell, which was tried without much success last spring but which has been re-rigged since then, will be put into use again this fall