The Cornell navy : a review . hem the fastest crew in America. Pennsylvania also haddefeated the Crescents in record time on the Schuylkill. Cornell had received ten dayscoaching from Courtney, and final touches during the few days at Lake George byC. S. Francis, but otherwise were self-taught. Nevertheless, they astonished the rowingworld by defeating Princeton and Pennsylvania by 32 seconds, Pennsylvania coming insecond, and the fastest crew in America third. The 84 crew was again coached for a period by Courtney, and was thought to be fastereven than the crew of the preceding year. Neverthe
The Cornell navy : a review . hem the fastest crew in America. Pennsylvania also haddefeated the Crescents in record time on the Schuylkill. Cornell had received ten dayscoaching from Courtney, and final touches during the few days at Lake George byC. S. Francis, but otherwise were self-taught. Nevertheless, they astonished the rowingworld by defeating Princeton and Pennsylvania by 32 seconds, Pennsylvania coming insecond, and the fastest crew in America third. The 84 crew was again coached for a period by Courtney, and was thought to be fastereven than the crew of the preceding year. Nevertheless, two races w^ere loss to Pennsylvania,one on the Schuylkill by three-quarters of a second, after a quarter-mile spurt, and the otherat Lake George, where only a foot separated the two prows at the finish. For the last hundredyards of this race each boat had gone ahead with the stroke, neither being able to gain anadvantage, and in this position the line was crossed, making it the closest intercollegiate raceon record. 26. Raht Cha! VARSITY 1883 CourtneyWilcox Scofield Beginning with the year1885, Cornell entered upona series of victories, Varsityand Freshman, which isperhaps without parallel inthe history of college row-ing. As a matter of fact,after the 78 race withHarvard there was noFreshman crew sent out* A from Ithaca until 1890 andthe first Freshman crew tobe defeated was in the year1897, when Yale and Har-vard both crossed the lineahead of her. But betweenthe years 1884 and I 895,noVarsity crew^ w^as defeated,although rowing in everyyear except 86. This maybe said to have been largelydue to the excellent coach-ing of Charles E. his position aspermanent coach did notbegin until the year 1889,yet he assisted in the train-ing for five or six years Swartwout (capt.)
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