Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the dirty waters of the Harlem river, and sometimes out into the vaster but not much cleaner Hudson, the crews of Columbia University have been rowing this week in a drive to beat Harvard and Tech on the Charles today...
...Columbia is driving far up the Hudson, under the Palisades, often as far as Yonkers, trying to iron out the faults which kept them in Yale's wake last week...
Today's should be an interesting race even if Columbia has not developed enough to make it a close one, for the Lion's style of rowing is the antithesis of that taught here by Tom Bolles. Under a system devised by Old dick 'Pop' Glendon, this Light Blue style involves the use of a slow recovery, a long reach, a long layback...
...most powerful of the Columbia crews will be the 150 pound beat. The 150's beat Yale by a quarter of a length on the Harlem last Saturday--the only Morning side eight to win a race in that Blackwell Regatta...
Aside from this race, it looks like comparatively smooth sailing for Crimson boats. The Freshmen from Columbia are not very strong, and Harvey Love's fast improving outfit should be able to set them back by about a length...