In praise of the Crew....an Easter Sunday Rowing Pictorial...Be good...no jokes about Ivy League "endowments" please ;)

(views courtesy of The Bain Collection, my collection, varied online sources, and Shorpy.com)




No matter what you row...1, 2, 4, or 8...whether coxed, or coxless......this is for you. May the winds be warm and in your favor ;)

We start with a tad bit of schematic for the orientation of the non-aficionado...... :)








And now onto the pictorial, posthaste !! :)

Cambridge Crew ca. 1910-15

Saturday Evening Post-June 7, 1902

Collier's June 21, 1915

Yale Varsity Panorama ca. 1910 (click to enlarge on desktop)

Ca. 1871-Halifax Nova Scotia rowers

1919-Potomac Boat Club Eight w/ Coxie

1923-H.A. Bowles-Anapolis Crew Captain

Harvard Varsity Eight

Harvard -Yale singles

European Fours

Late 19th Cent.

1876-International Fours guide

Oxford-Cambridge Eights -1841

Ahhh...Manly, yes, but I like it, too..... ;)

Cornell ca. 1902

1898-The National Association of Amateur Oarsmen (NAAO) regatta

The colors and flags of Cambridge's College Teams

A fine sentiment that I quite agree with, though by my time our uniforms differed 
considerably ;)

1908-Anapolis Eight

1872-Atlanta

Capital Athletic Club Women's Eight-1926

Capital Athletic Club Women's Eight 1926

Columbia Varsity practice-1910s.......

Coach Jim Rice-Columbia

Columbia practice 1910

Columbia practice 1914

Cornell Eight 1911

Cornell Varsity 1911

Cornell 1914

D.C. Central H.S. Eight-1927

As true now as then......it's ALL about the inches :)

Eadweard Muybridge-study of a rower

Harvard Varsity 1911

Harvard Varsity (undated)

Yale Varsity (undated)

Harvard Varsity Eight 1913

Harvard Varsity Eight 1915

1908-Harvard-Yale

1905 Harvard-Yale Regatta program

1958 Program

The 1929 program

Two great views of a Multi-sport European candy tin with Women's One and Two's 

Penn Varsity 1914

Undated unidentified Women's crew

Potomac Boat Club Eight-1919

Wisdom Eternal.........

Smith College Women's practice 1922

Stanford Varsity ca. 1914

A view of the full moon over Stanford ca. 1907......... ;)

Stanford-undated

A great view of the Stanford Crew......

Syracuse 2nd Varsity 1914

Syracuse Varsity 1914

Syracuse Varsity 1908

The Syracuse Frosh dine in '08

Saturday Evening Post-June 29, 1907-J.C.Leyendecker cover

"The Eight"-Cyril Power-1930

"The Guide" ca. 1908

1920s-30s

U Penn ca. 1890

U Penn 1893

U Penn 1899

U Penn undated

UK Vesta RC Christmas greeting WWI -1914

Washington Varsity Eight 1913

Wisconsin 1909

Wisconsin 1914

Wisconsin 1914

Yale 1913

Vintage Harvard 

1938 Princeton

Unknown-1860s

Dartmouth ca 1040

Women's Octopede Furnivall Sculling Club, London 1907

Georgetown 1930

Harvard postal card 1910s

Princeton 1874

Princeton 1913

Princeton 1945

The Women of Smith in 1907

Wisconsin Freshmen 1901

Yale-Penn 1911

San Diego State Normal College-Women-1917

Lane Tech High School-Chicago-1956

Lincoln Park Lagoon-Chicago 1910s




And......last, but certainly not least: The Coxie has the final word: 

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