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...Yale men seemed to have perceived by intuition that it was coming, and got under way a second or two before Harvard. But our men were off the next instant, and made the smooth paper shell literally jump through the water. At the end of the sixth stroke they were fairly ahead of Yale, and the rest of the race showed only a constant increase of the distance between the two boats...
...mettes. - The surprise of our English cousins on seeing this crew row would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage...
...Captain; F. B. Hall, '80, E. Fuller, '80, G. B. Hatch, '80, L. F. Woodward, S. S., G. K. Boutelle, '78, H. W. Mason, '78 (coxswain). Weld: P. Tuckerman, '78 (bow), H. Townsend, '80, D. O. Ives, '79, A. W. Hooper, '81, W. Trimble, '79, R. Trimble, '80 (stroke), F. H. Allen...
FOUR-OARED RACE (2 miles).Union: T. Houghton, C. H. Williams, Jones (bow), F. Peabody (stroke), Williams, 2d. (cox.). Harvard: W. Kessler, '78 (bow), T. W. Preston, '79, J. Parker, '78, L. N. Littauer, '78 (stroke), G. L. Cheney...
...following is the crew in training for the race with the Union Boat-Club, May 18: Kessler, '78, bow; Trimble, '80, 2; Parker, '78, 3; Littauer, '78, stroke; Cheney, '78, coxswain...