The Cornell navy : a review . RobbiAllel Freeborn (F. W.) Hamilton (sub.) Dyer Troy (sub.) Freeborn (A. C.) Walt Fowler Because of her long list of victories, it was decided in 1 895to send a crew to compete in the Henley Regatta. The Henleycourse is one mile 550 yards in length. The crew^ left about sixweeks before the time of the races. The first heat w^as againstLeander and was w^on on a fluke, the Leanders not rowing morethan a half dozen strokes and protesting the start, w^hich protest,however, w^as not allow^ed. The second heat w^as against TrinityHall, a Cambridge eight, and at about th
The Cornell navy : a review . RobbiAllel Freeborn (F. W.) Hamilton (sub.) Dyer Troy (sub.) Freeborn (A. C.) Walt Fowler Because of her long list of victories, it was decided in 1 895to send a crew to compete in the Henley Regatta. The Henleycourse is one mile 550 yards in length. The crew^ left about sixweeks before the time of the races. The first heat w^as againstLeander and was w^on on a fluke, the Leanders not rowing morethan a half dozen strokes and protesting the start, w^hich protest,however, w^as not allow^ed. The second heat w^as against TrinityHall, a Cambridge eight, and at about the mile post, -when in thelead, a Cornell man caught a crab v^rhich knocked the oar out ofhis hand, and the crew^ went to pieces, thus ending another ex-cursion to foreign waters in humiliating failure. Concerning the Leander incident, there is no question butthat the crew acted under its legal rights in accepting the deci-sion of the Stewards as final, but it failed never the less to do 35
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