The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-07-07
HARVARD YALE ROWING
CONTESTS At NEW LONDON
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
New London, Conn, June 3O.-The
Harvard-Yale rowing races, those
classics Of college sports. are to be
contested again today, over the
Thames river course, which has been
the scene of alternating triumps OF
the Crimson and the Blue for many
years past. The programme of TO-
morrow's races is as follows:
Freshman eight-oared race: Start
Iabout 0:30 a. m. Distance, two miles
beginning at the railroad draw-bridge
and finishing two miles up stream op-
posite the Navy Yard. Present record
for upstream course: Harvard Fresh.
men crew of 1907. in minutes, SSIb
seconds; record for downstream
course. Harvard Freshmen of 1899, in
minutes. 33 seconds.
Varsity Fours: Start at conclusion
of Freshmen race. Distance, two
miles, beginning at Navy Yard and
finishing two miles up the river. off
the Harvard quarters at Red Top.
Present record Yale crew of 1908, in
10 minutes, S31s seconds.
Varsity eight-oared race: Start
about p. m. Distance, four miles.
down stream, starting off Harvard
quarters at Red Top, and finishing at
railroad draw-bridge. Present Yale
Harvard Thames record held by Yale
crew of 1888, 20 minutes and 10 sec
onds over downstream course. Yale
crew of 1907 also holds the upstream
record, in the same time, 20 minutes
and 10 seconds.
Harvard and Yale rowing antedates
all other intercollegiate sport. Back
in 1852, two crews in crude boats pull
ed over two mile course on Lake
Winnipesaukee, and Harvard won.
Since that initial event, the two uni
versities have met 49 times, in various
places, and at various distances, with
Harvard winning a majority of the
early races and Yale proving faster
in later years, until today the record
stands Yale %, Harvard 81.
From Lake Winnipesaukee the scene
shifted to the Connecticut river at
Springfield; then to Lake Quinsiga-
mond at Worcester Lake Saltonstall
near New Haven was tried also, and
in one year Harvard cast her lot with
other colleges at Poughkeepsie. Rae
ing at New London began in 1873, and
several times there have been three
crews on the river. Cornell came here
in 1898 and beat both Yale and Har-
ward, but since that time the two old
est universities have rowed only each
other over a four-mile course.
Yale's longest series of successive
victories, six in number was broken
by Harvard in 1906, and, while the
Blue won in 1907. the Crimson has
been to the fore for the past three
years and with a powerful collection
of varsity, freshmen and substitute
fours have sewept the river on every
occasion except the four-oared race in
1908.
The two varsity crews came to New |
London this year after an unsuccess-
full preliminary season. Yale had met
defeat twice, once at Springfield by
Pennsylvania, and again at Princeton
by both Cornell and Princeton. while
at Ithaca. Harvard was beaten by
Cornell
Until most recent practice, the
Thames bore a decided crimson hue,
for Harvard's boat load of veterans
was looked upon as far superior to
the green material in the Yale shell.
But the improvement of the Yale
crew since the Princeton race has been
especially in recent practice.
OF the eight men who pull the Grim
son tipped blades this year, five of
hem. Metcalf, Wilmington. Strong,
Newton and Cutler, were in the boat
hat beat Yale last year. while two
'thers. stratton and Goodale, rowed
n the victorious freshman crew.
On the other hand. Capt Frost is
he only Yale veteran in the Blue
hell.
The old question is again presented,
whether a light, but green crew, such
IS sits in the Yale shell this year. can
'utrow a heavier and more experienc-
d collection of oarsmen that propel
his years Harvard boat. The race,
10 matter what the outcome, will prob
bly, be full of valuable lessons for
he followers of acquatics of each uni
ersity.
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