Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...miles and nosed out a victory, but C. C. Lund '16 was saving his men for the last half, as the Freshmen were waiting to give them a race over the last lap. The 1919 boat was going along at a high stroke and would probably have finished ahead, but in the last drive a submerged log was struck, which allowed the University crew to cross the line first with record-breaking time...
...regulation work-out, but an exciting race was staged between the Freshmen and the second eight. The 1919 shell secured a bad start, but by raising the stroke they soon caught up and held their own until near the finish, when the second crew with a fine spurt shot ahead and won by a length. The race was over the two-mile course upstream...
...afternoon consisted of another peculiar turn, for Coach Guy Nickalls lined up a heterogeneous crew which he himself stroked, and went after the first Yale eight. Nickalls' combination was too much for Captain Low and the other regulars, for after a nip and tuck race, the Yannigan eight pulled ahead and won by a fair length. The line of this victorious crew was as follows: Stroke, Guy Nickalls; 7, Wyman; 6, Abbott; 5, Campbell; 4, Cobb; 3, Whitney; 2, Rand; bow, Lasher...
...Yale second eight this morning engaged in a short brush with the first crew and came out ahead. The remainder of this crew's practice consisted in two more miles of hard rowing. The Yale coaches sent the 1919 shell for three miles, but let the yearlings off without any race...
...Yale second and Freshman crews raced a mile, in which the yearlings won by a length. The first eight paddled a length and a half ahead of the seconds and freshmen in an unofficial half-mile race in the afternoon...