Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Shortly after these changes, the second crew went into the Boat-house, and Brownell was tried at stroke in the first boat in place of McGrew, for a short stretch upstream and back...
...they tried to row all eight, the boat was very unsteady and did not seem to travel well. In a quarter-mile brush with the second on the way down-stream, the second crew beat the first by a length, while rowing the same stroke. In a considerably longer stretch, around the bend to the boat-house, the first had the inside of the curve and finished hardly a length ahead. This weak showing is partly attributed to the fact that the first was using last year's Freshman shell, which proved to be twisted. The 1901 University shell will...
...University crews took a rather hard row, yesterday afternoon, to Harvard bridge and back in unchanged orders. Both eights rowed in short stretches to the Longwood bridge, under the coaching of Mr. Higginson. Here the crews were started for a mile stretch down-stream. At first the second crew drew ahead until they led the first crew by half a length, but when both eights put the stroke up slightly, the first gained again, finishing even with the second...
...mile stretch back to Longwood bridge the second crew quickly gained three-quarters of a length but in the last eighth of a mile the first put up the stroke and finished half a length ahead. The second crew was then sent ahead to the boat house and the first was coached on the way up stream by G.S. Mumford '87. E.C. Storrow '89, as well as Mr. Higginson...
...Rust, who had the pole, jumped to the lead at the start and, although he was hard pressed at times, was never once headed, and finished first in 50 4-5 seconds. Lightner, who had taken second place at the beginning of the race, was passed on the back stretch by Boardman, but fifty yards from home he regained his position and finished two yards behind Rust. Boardman was a yard further behind, with Long and Fry a little further back. Harvard 7, Yale...