Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-30
THE HARVARO-YALE
ROWING RACES
Annual Contests Began in 1852 and
Has Been Continued, with Vary
ing Fortune, for Fifty-nine
Years.
[By Associated Press. I

by Associated Press.
New Haven, Conn, June 30.-The
Yale freshmen won the eight-oared
race from Harvard by two lengths in
IL minutes So seconds. Harvard won
varsity substitute tours race by three
lengths in Is minutes 81 ~ seconds.
New London, Conn, June 30.-The
Harvard-Yale rowing races, those clas-
sizes of college sports, are to be con-
tested again tomorrow, over the
Thames river course, which has been
the scene of alternating triumphs of
the Crimson and the Blue for many
years past.
Harvard and Yale rowing antedates
al other intercollegiate sport. Back
in 1852, two crews in crude boats
pulled over a two-mile course on Lake
Winnipesaukee, and Harvard won.
Since that initial event, the two uni
versities have met forty-three times,
in various places and at various dis
.tances, with Harvard winning a ma
jority of the early rates and Yale
proving faster in later years, until to-
day the record stands: Yale %, Har
ward q.
From Lake Winnipesaukee the
scene shifted to the Connecticut river
at Springfield; then to Lake Quinsig-
amond 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 1878, 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
otner 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 powerful collection
of varsity, freshman and substitute
tours have swept the river on every
occasion except the four-oared race in
1903.
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 decidedly 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
marked, especially in recent practice.
OF the eight men who pull the Grim
son tipped blades this year, five of
them, Metcalf, Wilmington, Strong,
Newton and Cutler, were in the boat
that beat Yale last year, while two
others. Stratton and Goodale, rowed
in the victorious freshman crew.
On the other hand, Captain Frost is
the only Yale veteran in the Blue
shell.
The old question is again presented,
whether a light but green crew, such
as sits in the Yale shell this year, can
outrow a heavier and more expert
enced collection of oarsmen that pro-
pei this years Harvard boat. The race,
no matter what the outcome, will
probably be full of valuable lessons
for the followers of aquatics of each
university.