The First Dartmouth Crew

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In a field of eight colleges in 1873 the new Dartmouthcrew was beaten by only three and would have done betterhad it not gotten away to a very bad start,. The other entrieswere: Cornell, Columbia, Williams, Harvard, Yale, Am-herst, Wesleyan, and Bowdoin. Biglin, the Dartmouthcoach, defeated an old rival, Ellis Ward, in a match race.

The Accident to Ward and Collision of The Amherst and Columbia Boats THE WAKD-BIGLIN RACE AT SPRINGFIELD, MASS., ON TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1873 (Tom Biglin was the Dartmouth Coach)