Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity are precarious favorites, the jayvees are even more so. Although they also are unbeaten to date, their wins have been by hairbreadth margins, and Navy, Penn, or Princeton may well turn the tables on them today. Yale's second boat is also reputedly hot; two weeks ago it beat its Navy counter part by more than two lengths, while Harvard was only able to squeeze out a deck-length win over the same Middle combination...
...freshman boat is probably in the most secure position of the three Harvard boats. It is remarkably fast for a first year crew. In fact, after last week's race the New York Times' Allison Danzig asked Tom Bolles if any special river conditions had accounted for the freshmen's 8:54 time. Bolles answered, "No, it's just a fast crew...
...further exhibit their prowess, Harvey Love's "novice" rowers beat the varsity in a practice race Wednesday, an extraordinary feat considering the excellence of the senior boat...
...shells they race today, BU, Navy, MIT, Columbia, Penn, and Princeton, have already been beaten by the freshmen. of the sextet, MIT's boat is the only one that has ever come close. It has trailed the freshmen by seveneighths, a half, and one and a half lengths consecutively in three races...
...variation from a 90 degree angle will cause the oar to "knife in" and dig too deeply into the water. When this happens, the handle of the oar is apt to come up suddenly and hit the unsuspecting rower in the stomach, often lifting him unceremoniously out of the boat and depositing him in the river...