M. CREW: Y150 finishes fourth 10.27.09
The Y150 gave a strong all-around performance at its penultimate race Sunday at the Princeton 3-Mile Chase.
The Y150 gave a strong all-around performance at its penultimate race Sunday at the Princeton 3-Mile Chase.
The Yale heavyweight crew ended its season on a low note, losing its title as the defending champion of the Princeton 3-Mile Chase on Sunday.
The Yale lightweight crew took home the Eads Johnson trophy on Saturday, winning four races out of five in the season opener against Navy.
For the second year in a row, the Yale heavyweight crew fell to the Brown Bears in its season opener.
The Yale men’s heavyweight crew team wrapped up its fall season at the Foot of the Charles in Boston on Nov. 23 in a field of six competitors, including Ivy rivals Harvard and Brown. Temperatures were below freezing, but the rowers did not pay too much attention to the cold. Expectations were high, as the team was well-prepared.
It was a triple-title weekend for Yale crew as all three teams wrapped up their fall seasons with victories in Sunday’s Princeton Chase.
The men’s lightweight crew team just had another perfect weekend. On Saturday, Yale traveled to Hanover, N.H., to take on the defending Eastern Sprints champion crew, encountering fast conditions and speedy races.
The men’s heavyweight crew team has had a tough season so far. With a solid victory over Dartmouth on April 12, the Bulldogs retained the Olympic Axe, but the crew has since handed over two trophies that have adorned the Gilder Boathouse for at least a year.
The men’s lightweight crew team kept the Dodge Cup in its trophy case with a victory over Columbia and Penn. Saturday morning’s three-race sweep led to success in the afternoon, too: The Elis crossed the finish line first in four of five races against defending national champion Cornell in their second races of the day.
In its fifth year of competition, the Olympic Axe trophy has not yet left the Gilder Boathouse. The men’s heavyweight crew team ensured that the Axe would not make the nearly 200-mile trek to Hanover, N.H. as the Elis swept the Big Green this Saturday.
The men’s lightweight crew team is mowing down every opponent that crosses its path. In just two competitions in the spring season, the varsity boat has tasted only victory.
Shirt-racing, or shirt-betting, embodies rowing's traditional aesthetic. Pre-eminent rowing collector-historian Tom Weil ’71 says losers were traditionally obliged to strip the racing shirts off their backs and hand them to their opponents on the water.