Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps less obvious is the fact that the Olympic games will not be held until next summer. Between last June 28, when the Crimson champions assembled in the same boat for the last time as a unit, and the spring of 1948 when the U. S. representative is chosen, a lot of water--pardon the expression--will pass under the Larz Anderson Bridge. And the shell-load Coach Tom Bolles will finally call his "number one beat" for competition as the Varsity next spring will have unfamiliar figures in at least three slides--stroke, four, and two--as well...
Regardless of the Elis' ulterior-motivated publicity about the "experienced Harvards" and the "neophyte Yales," Bolles had only two former Varsity men in the boat when they defeated Princeton and M.I.T. on the Charles in their first race last April. He fretted about their inexperience and about the adverse weather which kept them from coming down to a good rowing weight...
...lead. Half a mile from the finish, Cornell began its sprint. Navy's Coxswain John Gartland called for a rise in the beat. It went up to 34, to 36. For the last 20 strokes, Navy hit a brisk 42 beat. They were less than half a boat length ahead at the finish when Coxswain Gartland gave "Easy all" to his crew and got set for the traditional fate of all victorious coxswains: a ducking by his mates...
Three days earlier, two crews who habitually snub Poughkeepsie had their own closed-shop regatta on Connecticut's Thames River. The victor, for the ninth time in a row: Harvard over Yale, by a boat length and a half...
...only two weeks of the year, Red Top, consisting mainly of a two-story, gray building with crimson shutters, a few scattered cottages, and Bacon Boat-house, is inhabited by Harvard men. And, until after the races, it has a quiet aura of inhabitation...