Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard cheering section sitting in a temporary grandstand built on the edge of the Schuylkill River yelled themselves hoarse and the student band boomed and whooped as that beefy crew pulled past the judges' barge three quarters of a length ahead of Penn, with the Navy third. "Beat Yale at New London and then try for the Olympics!" cried Harvard old grads...
...Derby, Conn., the Yale crew, rowing beautifully, beat Princeton and Cornell without drama to win the Carnegie Cup. Cornell was four and a half lengths back at the finish and Princeton two lengths behind Cornell...
...both women, but Mlle. Le Blan least. Mlle. Le Blan has a flashing eye, a hook nose, a big mouth, and a strong, graceful body. She wore stockings, leather coat, woolen gloves, like Miss Wragg. Since she felt comfortable her drives were long and hard, her putts accurate. She beat Miss Marshall at the 34th hole. "I am glad" said she "to have saved the championship for France...
...schoolboys set a high stroke over the half mile course, finishing in two minutes, 46 seconds, to beat the heavy, put less coordinated Freshman dormitory craft...
...Cambridge, in a grey twilight, the Harvard crew, with better blade work and new weight, beat Cornell with Massachusetts Institute of Technology third...