STROKE!
1851
Dartmouth students hear that other schools have sculls. The fact that the students have never rowed does not stop them from building a boat.
1857
A late summer freshet washes away seven boats and a floating boathouse
1869 A freshet again destroys Dartmouth's flotilla.
1872
Bowdoin, Amherst, Harvard, Yale, and Wesleyan have crews. Dartmouth students cannot stomach Staying afloat hasn'talways been easy forDartmouth's crew.
the thought of an intercollegiate athletic event without their participation. The sport returns.
1874
The Dartmouth crew travels by train to a regatta in Saratoga. The scull is strapped to the roof. Sparks from the locomotive burn holes in the boat.
1877
Heavy snow destroys the boathouse.
1879
Logs floating down the river torpedo the crew's revival.
1920
Fundraising for crew falls short. The Ledyard Canoe Club is founded instead.
1952
Heavy snow destroys the boathouse.
1980
Judy '75 and Carlie '50 Geer win the Olympic double scull trials for women. The United States boycotts the Moscow Olympics.
1987
Dartmouth builds a new boathouse. The $780,000 structure has storage for 30 boats, showers, a lounge, and an observation deck.
1991
Dartmouth rowers set a stationary rowing record. They "travel" one million meters in 54 hours 36 minutes and 50 seconds.
1993
The boathouse survives the blizzard of' 93, but several sculls are wrecked when the crew van skids off a snow- covered highway. Before help arrives, two boats that survive the crash are damaged by a snowplow.
