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With the exception of Saturday and Sunday the 'varsity crew has been working morning and afternoon during the recess. Yesterday Col. Bancroft coached the men both in the morning and afternoon. In the morning the men went out in the shell for the first time this year. Waters went back to 7, and Blake to 5. The crew has improved somewhat and the men are rowing in this order: Stroke, Fennessy; 7, Waters; 6, L. Davis; 5, Blake; 4, Bullard; 3, Townsend; 2, F. Davis, bow, Purdon...
...general fault of the crew seems to be a tendency to rush the slide and jerk the arms. The men will go into the shell in a day or two and during the vacation will row in the morning and afternoon. Mayor Bancroft and Nelson Perkins coached on Saturday and the men rowed as follows: Stroke, Fennessy; No. 7, Blake; No. 6, L. Davis (capt.); No. 5, Waters; No. 4, Bullard; No. 3, Townsend; No. 2, F. Davis; bow, Purdon...
Three new shells have been ordered for the use of the 'varsity crew. Davy is to build a cedar boat. It will be constructed on a lighter and slightly narrower model than his former boats and will probably weigh, when completed, in the neighborhood of 200 pounds. Waters is at work on a paper shell which will be very much the same sort of a boat as that used by the '92 'varsity crew. The third shell is being built in Enland by Ruff, the builder who supplies the Oxford crews. This boat will be brought over here as soon...
...Yale freshmen shell will cost...
...Yale 'varsity crew has ordered a new paper shell from Waters. It will be sixty feet long and twenty inches wide-similar to the boat in which the eight rowed last year...