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...made excellent progress, but is inclined to catch too easily, and does not keep his back straight enough. On the whole, however, he has a very good style, and with a little more firmness would show about the best form in the crew...
...settle definitely the question of the results of training upon the health. In order to do this he obtained statistics regarding a large number of boating men of both Harvard and Yale, and also much information regarding their general health. All of the facts ascertained by him tended to show that the effect of hard training upon the health was undoubtedly beneficial, and that on an average the expectation of life of these men, carefully considered, was exceeded by many years...
...eleven. Harvard has won four series, Yale one, with two ties. In 1881 the tie could not be played off, owing to some disagreement with regard to the date. In 1882 a date was arranged for a deciding game, but Yale, knowing they had won the championship without showing a superiority over at least two teams, backed squarely out of the game. They claimed that they could not hold their nine together, but the fact that they played a game with a professional nine afterward, shows where the pinch came. This short account of the record will serve to show...
...four out of the seven four-mile eight-oared races; that in 1879 Yale met with the worst defeat ever known in the history of rowing. As Yale crews have always been superior to Harvard crews in weight, and sometimes in strength, the above record goes to show the superiority of Harvard's management and skill...
...half, told on the matches with Harvard and Princeton, and won for our New Haven brothers the championship. We cannot offer them our sincere congratulations for such victories. We do not wish to charge Yale falsely, and are ready to hear what she has to say, but she must show stronger proofs than she has yet produced, to disprove the evidence that we possess. She must, at least, make an open denial of this system of umpire-play, by which referees have been systematically bulldozed. We do not believe she will deny it. Even professionals will expel from...