Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Aerial Dreadnought is being built for the British Air Ministry. Some of its main features include living quarters, electric illumination, an electric capstan controlling a 125-pound anchor, two water-tight transverse bulkheads, sleeping quarters for five, a chart room...
...Freshman relay teams. It has been definitely decided that the Crimson will not enter a two-mile quartet in this meet. Gordon has replaced Murphy in the mile relay and is running second, while Vinton Chapin will lead off while Merrill and Burke are slated for the third and anchor positions respectively. In the Freshman medley race, Allen will run 880 yards, McGlone 440 yards, Chase 220 yards, and Kane one mile...
...events won by Cornell. The quartet which represented the University in the relay did well considering the fact that it was more or less of a make-shift. Chapin's lead-off was the only time in the race that the Crimson held the pole, and Merrill, at anchor, finished last behind Dartmouth and Cornell...
News from Hanover indicates that Blake, Bates, and Foster, the latter a veteran and anchor man, will be sure of berths on the Green quartet, and the other man will be either Buttes or Hill. Coykendall is slated to be Cornell's anchor...
...laps, but W. L. Chapin '25 passed Jerman in the second relay and piled up a 15-yard lead. J. E. Merrill '24 was evidently tired from his running earlier in the evening, for he lost all that Chapin had gained and started Burke ten yards behind the Green anchor man, Letteney. The Crimson leader devoted the first three laps to bringing himself up on even terms with Letteney, then passed him on a straightaway, and had gained a lead of almost 20 yards at the finish line...