Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University eight appeared on the river last Monday for the first time after their housing during the winter months, - a day earlier than they did last year. The men that pulled were: Crocker, Brigham, Littaner, Jacobs, Stow, Schwartz, Smith, stroke Bancroft, and coxswain Allen; and, considering that it is the first time for three months that they have had oars in their hands, they pulled remarkably well. The boat first went down the river, then turned and passed the boat-house, and was greeted by a "three times three" from the crowd which had come down to see them...
...Sunday Herald gives an account of a wonderful light-weight six-oar of the Dauntless Boat-Club of New York. Their record shows what training and good management will do. The heaviest man in this crew is 145 pounds in weight, while the stroke and bow each weigh 115, and the average weight of the crew is only 131. Last year they defeated, among others, the Neptune Six, composed of such men as Kennedy of Yale, King of Cornell, Riley the sculler, Johnson, Keator, and Shand, - a crew which in weight, age, and reputation far surpassed them. The record...
...Stroke. Thompson...
...January 28, and the following are the men now in the boat: Bow, C. H. Prest, Jesus; 2, C. T. Holmes, Clare; 3, H. L. Pilkington, Queen's; 4, R. J. Spurrell, Trinity Hall; 5, T. W. Barker, First Trinity; 6, E. Nettleford, Caius; 7, T. Williams, Clare; Stroke, T. E. Hockin, Jesus; Coxswain, G. L. Davis, Clare. Mr. Hockin is the only old "Blue" left in the boat, but there is a chance that Mr. Gurdon, who is at present coaching, will take a seat later...
...Champion College Four. They go merely to represent Columbia College, and the venture shows a pluck and enterprise which every true lover of sport must admire and applaud. The crew, as at present made up, consists of: Bow, R. E. Sage; 2, R. Colgate; 3, C. S. Boyd; Stroke, J. T. Goodwin; Substitutes, G. H. Ridabock and C. Edson...