Word: stroke
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...certainly seems to attract those people who like a certain bit of hardship,” said senior Kip McDaniel, a stroke of the men’s heavyweight team...
Coach Brown has been experimenting with the Combination crew, and changed the seating three times on Saturday. O. A. Pendar '27 and D. S. Greer '29 were tried at stroke. W. K. Rice '27 and R. S. Riley '27 were placed at several different positions in the boat in order to determine the best arrangement, but no final line-up has been announced, and the trials will probably continue for a few days...
...Conn., June 14.--The University crew got down to work in earnest this afternoon when it paddled six miles without stopping, rowing to the bridge and back. On the return, the stroke was raised and the eight finished with beat held a 36 by F. R. Sullivan '27, who retains his position as coxswain in the University boat. The seating remained unchanged. No time was kept...
This morning the Junior University crew paddled over the two-mile course, holding the stroke at 20. In the afternoon, it rowed to the railroad bridge and over the four mile course. This was a hard row against the tide, with the stroke beginning at 24. At the finish mark, however, the stroke was 39, and the time proved...
...juggling process went on in the case of the Combination crew. The boating is shifted throughout, but it is unknown whether Coach Brown has reached any conclusions as to the permanence of any seating yet tried. As it rowed today, the Combination crew was seated, as follows: stroke, A. O. Pendar '27; 7, W. K. Rice '27; 6, R. S. Riley '27; 5, P. B. Huntington '26; 4, T. D. Howe Jr. '26; 3, K. D. Robinson '29; 2, J. de W. Hubbard '29; bow, George Bancroft '27; cox., A. M. Pappenheimer...