Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Sophomores will succeed in getting places in the 'Varsity boat if they have the better chance which a longer rest will give them to recuperate from their training and to grow, as most rowing men do in their first summer vacation. As for their not having rowed in a shell except for two weeks before the class races, if it were an understood thing that the class races were intended to prepare the Freshman oar for the 'Varsity, with such advice as the rowing authorities should not hesitate to give, the Freshman shell could be in use, in a year...
...University Crew were in their paper shell Monday for the first time...
...Freshman shell came last Friday. It is rather small...
...Senior race, the latter getting a slight advantage at the start. Both men were rowing a very rapid stroke when, in less than a minute, Griswold caught a "crab" and shot into the water. He was helped out by some spectators in a boat near by, and his shell - the right wash-board of which was smashed - was towed ashore. Hall consented to start again, but as Griswold refused, Hall rowed over the course alone, and was awarded the prize...
...remembered. To place now the present crews in the order of their classes would probably be as accurate as any other arrangement of them, but that they will remain so between now and the races by no means follows. When all the crews shall have left their barges for shells a difference will soon be observable. The Junior crew, being light-weight, will undoubtedly make a better show, and the Seniors will hold their own, to say the least. The Sophomore crew contains some of the heaviest men, but this fact seems to work against them. They are too self...