Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell has brought a smooth-looking fifty shell to Cambridge, and the three lightweights should put on another thriller. Bert Haines has tried to strengthen his Varsity boat by moving stroke Johnny Abbot and Bobby Lincoln into the first boat...
After Monday's victory Haines decided he could get a faster eight by shaking up his first two boats, and as a result Johnny Abbot replaced Hal Fales at the stroke slide in the "first" boat and Bobby Lincoln went in at number four in place of Dave Woodbury...
...some reason or other Abbot's boat didn't click as Haines had hoped, and he had practically decided to give the Fales-paced "seconds" the call Saturday, depending on the outcome of yesterday's time-trial. In the crucial test however, Abbot's boat found itself and nosed out the seconds by a scant half length, winning the right to race tomorrow...
...Dick Swanson-Andy Gaudielle-Abbot combination which now holds down the stern three slides in Captain Soth Crocker's boat is a trio which Haines has been fostering for over a year. Last year they rowed in the same positions on their Freshman crew and worked out together all winter until on attack of the mumps put Abbot temporarily out of commission...
Junior Varsity--Hubbard bow, Miller 2, Gilchrist 3, Whittemore 4, McAdoo 5, Lincoln 6, Rothschild 7, Abbot stroke, Thomas...