Word: bollesmen
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Last Eastern threat to Crimson supremacy in eight-oared sprinting trailed nearly two lengths in the Bollesmen's wake, as a level-headed Varsity eight crushed Columbia's feeble bid for victory on the tide-swept Harlem last Saturday...
...lost upon crew experts who hall the Harvard sweepers as sprint champions of the East is the significance of their consistently slow stroke over the short distances. Although the Elis flashed by Cornell to cast grave doubts on the Bollesmen's mythical title, sportsmen are picking the Chace-paced eight to come into its element in the long distance stretch at New London...
That Coach Buck Walsh of the Middies is getting really worried over the coming race with the Bollesmen seemed well confirmed last night when reports from Annapolis showed that he had shifted his bowman, Neal Almgren to take Tommy Walker's place at stroke...
Settling down to the first of five hard workouts before the crucial clash with Navy on the Severn this Saturday, the Varsity eight showed good from in a five-mile spin on the Charles yesterday. Rowing at a 24 and 26 count most of the way, the Bollesmen were put though several sprinting paces. There were no changes in the boatings...
Syracuse's husky boat which trailed in the Crimson wake on Saturday by a length and a quarter will take another spin on the Charles this weekend, but by this time the Bollesmen have the Orange stroke well measured and may easily beat them by a larger margin...