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...also decided that the manager of the University crew be allowed to purchase two new eight-oar shells and one new four-oar shell...
Twenty-three crews in all making a total of 184 men, rowed during a period of three weeks. Of this number fully one-half were green material and many had never been in a shell before. No regular training rules were enforced, but some of the crews trained on their own account. With this small amount of practice and the inevitable irregularity of attendance the development of the crews is very creditable, both to the coaches...
...second time this fall. The men rowed upstream about 1 and 1-2 miles in several easy stretches and returned to the University boathouse about 4.50 o'clock. Both crews showed slight improvement over their work on Tuesday, and the first crew was able to keep its shell on a fairly even keel. The second boat, however, as was also the case in the former practice, spaced out the more consistently between strokes...
...first crew had never rowed together before and consequently was very ragged in form, but the second eight, which was the same as the 1909 Freshman crew, with the exception of the coxswain, seemed to row very well considering the fact that it was their first time in a shell for three months. Captain Bacon coached from the "John Harvard...
...swinging true and rowing in the best of form. Yale, on the other hand, appeared to be a little tired. Noyes at 6 was lunging with his blade at the catch, and Morse, 3, and Weeks, bow, were also out of time on the recovery. Gradually the University shell forged ahead. Filley raised his stroke and every man in the boat kept with him, even at 36 in the last few lengths. The whole Harvard crew finished strong, crossing the line a winner by almost two lengths of open water. The time was 23 minutes and 2 seconds...