Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thursday afternoon the Crimson posed on the Newell Boat House float with coxswain Sam Mantel clutching the gold-encrusted Compton Cup which it defends today. Whether posing with this trophy before the race is symptomatic of sublime confidence or resignation to defeat is a matter for speculation...
Galo may be back on his feet by Saturday, but there is no miracle of science that can put him in the boat that starts against Rutgors, Princeton, and M.I.T. on Lake Carnegic that afternoon...
...gaping hole that the prostrate Gale leaves in this Olympic-bidding Varsity will be filled by Bob Taggart, a six-and-one-half foot sophomore who rowed seven on last year's first Freshman boat...
This will put the Crimson well behind all opposition but M.I.T. in point of experience the day after tomorrow, as both Princeton and Rutgers have already raced. The Tigers, who boast only three returnees from 1947, dropped their opener to a strong Navy boat last week, while Rutgers, never a fear-provoking aggregation, dropped one to Penn by four lengths the same day. M.I.T. is an untested, but usually dangerous, competitor...
Colombo, a Navy veteran, was pitched into the water when an carlock on his single scull snapped, thus turning the whole boat bottom up. He pushed the stricken craft to the shore, righted it, and, refusing all offers of assistance, paddled home to the Weld Boat House...