Word: boatlengths
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...heavyweight race, on Princeton's Carnegie Lake, was tightly contested the whole way. Radcliffe nipped Cornell for second, but finished a boatlength behind the speedy Tigers...
After starting at about 40 strokes per minute and settling to a relatively low 34 to 35 by the halfway mark, the oarsmen already had a boatlength on the Huskies and proved unstoppable, even by a mighty gust of wind that came straight at both shells just before the finish...
...move they did, quickly enough to have half a boatlength lead by the relatively, and only relatively, calmer water of the second thousand. There, the Crimson--despite a crosswind and a somewhat frantic 37 strokes per-minute cadence--sealed the victory by holding off a Midshipman sprint with 300 meters to go to claim a five-second victory...
...ideal water conditions produced very fast times over the 2000-meter course The Crimson got off to its characteristically fast start, establishing nearly a boatlength lead at the 800 meter mark...
...think we'll have a real race on our hands," lightweight Coach Bruce Beall said yesterday. "All three boats should finish within a single boatlength...