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...toss, and chose the inside position. At four o'clock she pulled to the starting-point, and a few minutes later Harvard took her place. At 4:16 the word was given, the inside crew getting the word first and the advantage at the start. Cornell was pulling forty strokes to the minute, Harvard thirty-six. When a half-mile was finished Cornell was a little in advance, which lead was increased until a mile and a third, when half a length of open water separated the two boats. At a mile and three quarters, Brandegee increased Harvard's stroke...
...first quarter-mile Harvard was rowing 36 to the minute, and Yale was three lengths astern, pulling 33. Yale kept a slow stroke during the entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing...
...opening of the fourth mile Yale made a grand effort and spurted up to 36. But it was of no use. The crimson eight, who were pulling a clean, even, and powerful stroke, which contrasted strongly with the splashing stroke of the Yale crew, went up to 38 to the minute, and kept it up to the beginning of the last half-mile, when they slackened to 37, which was their rate when they crossed the line. The men from New Haven pulled a plucky race, and stuck to their work manfully, though they could not have had any hopes...
...Harvard University Crew. - Alvah Crocker (bow), N. M. Brigham (No. 2), B J. Legate (No. 3), M. R. Jacobs (No. 4), V. D. L. Stow (No. 5), W. U. Schwartz (No. 6), F. W. Smith (No. 7), W. A. Bancroft (stroke and captain), F. H. Allen (coxswain). Time...
...Yale University Crew. - J. W. Curtis (bow), F. E. Hyde (No 2), B. S. Keator (No. 3), H. Livingston (No. 4), H. W. Taft (No. 5), G. B. Rogers (No 6), D. Trumbull (No. 7), O. D. Thompson (stroke and captain), C. F. Aldrich (coxswain). Time...