The Cornell navy : a review . COURTNEY, IN RACING TRIM27. Cornell Barney VARSITY 1884Scofield Raht Howiand Church previous to that time, and his advice had been a determining factor. His methods,it need hardly be said, were those suggested by common-sense. He was constandylearning, and this knowledge backed up by skill in building and rigging boats, and splendidjudgment in the selection of crews from the available candidates, soon combined to establishat Cornell a system which will probably continue as long as intercollegiate rowing exists. In 1885 Cornell won from Pennsylvania on the Schuylki
The Cornell navy : a review . COURTNEY, IN RACING TRIM27. Cornell Barney VARSITY 1884Scofield Raht Howiand Church previous to that time, and his advice had been a determining factor. His methods,it need hardly be said, were those suggested by common-sense. He was constandylearning, and this knowledge backed up by skill in building and rigging boats, and splendidjudgment in the selection of crews from the available candidates, soon combined to establishat Cornell a system which will probably continue as long as intercollegiate rowing exists. In 1885 Cornell won from Pennsylvania on the Schuylkill, lowering the record for thecourse. In a regatta held upon Lake Quinsigamond, at Worcester, Mass., her crew finishedfirst in a field of four, but was ruled out on account of fouling with Bowdoin. Bowdoinscourse was a very irregular one and it appeared to impartial critics that she w^as the offenderif blame were to be placed upon any one. At any rate, at one point in the race the oars of thetw^o boats interlocked; neither lost but a second, and both s
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