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Once upon a time, thousands cheered on the Big Red <\/em>from packed rail cars chugging along the shore of Cayuga Lake <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a century ago, intercollegiate rowing at Cornell was at the height of its popularity as a spectator sport. Beginning in the late 1800s, throngs of Big Red supporters would gather along the east shore of Cayuga Lake. Some cheered from boats on the water\u2014while others watched from coveted seats on the \u201cobservation train.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine dozens of flatbed cars outfitted with open bleachers facing the lake, filled with cheering fans. They\u2019d chug along the shoreline like a moving grandstand, keeping pace with the racing crews from start to finish, with race lengths ranging from two miles to four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A packed train on Cayuga\u2019s shore. (Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As Alan Held \u201917\u2014a former Big Red lightweight rower who\u2019s now the archivist for the Cornell Rowing Association\u2014explains, engines were situated at either end, so \u201cafter pacing each event, the train would reverse direction and run north to the start of the next race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This configuration led professor O.D. von Engeln\u2014author of At Cornell<\/em>, a popular campus guidebook of the era\u2014to describe the train as \u201ca hydra-headed beast \u2026 puffing along down the shore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Observation trains could stretch up to 40 cars long. With up to 100 spectators per car, that meant 4,000 fans could ride\u2014yelling, cheering, and waving flags along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For other intercollegiate regattas, the trains plied the rails along Connecticut\u2019s Thames River and the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A coveted ticket. (Joe Kirschner \/ provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Rowing enthusiasts often lined up the night before tickets were available, says Eric Langstedt \u201901, a former Big Red oarsman who authored The Rise of Cornell Rowing 1871\u20131920<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News coverage of a May 1901 regatta noted that \u201cticket sales began at 8 a.m., with 3,000 tickets being sold in less than an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"An
Boarding the train in 1920. (Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The trains nearly always sold out, with the tickets often kept as mementos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think people realize how important Cornell rowing was,\u201d observes Joe Kirschner \u201993, a prolific collector<\/a> of Big Red sports memorabilia. \u201cIt put Cornell on the map\u2014they were the king of college rowing for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These Super Bowl-sized contests were some of the nation\u2019s biggest spectator events, Kirschner explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A ticket preserved in a 1919 scrapbook. (Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Through his own research and the bounty of ephemera in his collection<\/a>, Kirschner can paint a vivid picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrations were held in the days and nights leading up to the regatta, with crowds of 30,000 lining the river for the races and hundreds of boats following along.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone would be dressed up, they\u2019d have pennants and stuff, and they\u2019d roar, cheer, and sing songs,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter a huge win, there would be a parade, and the athletes would literally be carried down the street.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ithaca\u2019s first observation train, outfitted by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, ran in 1890, when spectators watched Cornell beat Bowdoin; the last ran in 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Story continues below)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018A Unique Sight\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe observation train, 35 or more cars long, banked high with seats and crowded to capacity with a gay freight of holiday makers is in itself a unique sight. It winds ponderously along the shore of the lake, an engine puffing at each end, while the bright colors of the gowns worn by the feminine passengers stand out in pleasing contrast with the dark rich green of the foliage on the steep slope and the high rock cliffs that overhang the tracks. Banners wave, Cornell colors predominating; heads bob, everybody is interested and excited. Along the shores and on the lake is an equally animated scene. Here thousands of other spectators have been gathering for hours past, coming by motor, afoot and afloat. Over the wooded hills on the far side of the water the sun is sinking low, evening clouds gather and the whole scene is soon aglow with the golden colors of a Cayuga sunset.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Prof. O.D. von Engeln, Concerning Cornell<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

A combination of factors prompted their demise, including railroads no longer wanting to tie up key stretches of track for hours, and wartime constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo my knowledge, only a few feeble attempts at observation trains took place after World War II, when the trains were taken apart for their metal,\u201d Langstedt says. \u201cIt was likely a main cause of the decline in regatta attendance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lake\u2019s \u201cfickle conditions\u201d also played a factor, Held notes; Big Red races are no longer rowed on Cayuga\u2019s open water. A more dependable course was created in the mid-1960s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged a new inlet near downtown Ithaca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1930, a train chugs by cars lining East Shore Drive. (Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Held is now a manager with the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway Corporation. Given his particular combination of career and Big Red crew experience, he sometimes feels nostalgic for an era that predated his own rowing days by more than a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, rowers in the last quarter of their races on the Cayuga Inlet can be inspired by the cheers of their friends and families as they come past the boathouse,\u201d he observes. \u201cBut one can\u2019t help wondering what it would have been like to hear those cheers pace them for the duration of the race.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Big Red regattas of the 1920s (Rare and Manuscript Collections \/ Courtesy of Allan H. Mogensen 1923).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published April 12, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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