Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowing in the American Henley at Philadelphia, the Varsity 150's compete against Princeton, Yale, Penn, Navy, Cornell, and Columbia. A morning and an afternoon heat will probably be run in view of the number of entrants. The Harvard boatings are: stroke, Whitney; 7, Dall; 6, Carpenter; 5, Adams; 4, Bill; 3, Piper; 2, Hall; bow, Perry; cox, Barber...
...fastest time ever recorded for the four-mile course which runs past Krum Elbow and Hyde Park, home of President Roosevelt, and under the two bridges, was California's 18:35 4/5 in 1928. The same crew, which beat Columbia in this race by less than a boat length, went on to win an Olympic victory. A similar record although not in time, was hung up by the Golden Bears of 1923. California also won in 1934, following the depression lapse...
...goes, at Columbia, the Glendons, at Cornell, Jim Wray, at California minute Ky Ebright, at Pennsylvania, Rusty Callow, and at Washington, Al Ulbricks all stand-out coaches. The latter three are all Washington men, that institution in crew coaching today as Notre Dane does in football. Other stories might told about each of them. And more color can be found in the lakes and inlets rivers, upon which the crews train, but late in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18 eyes will be on Poughkeepsie, in the seven lanes leading out from the west the Hudson river...
Seven crews, Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Navy, Washington and California, will face the starter a gun above Krum Elbow. A few days the race they will be assigned to their lanes, beginning with the treasured the first from the bank. But good crews in the outside lane have been known...
...again come the favorite, Washington, rowing its victory freshmen of 1934 infact as the varsity crew. California, once conquered by but ready to try again, will not be spurned as a contender. In the East, is looked upon with favor, while Cornell remains the perennial dark Tradition decrees that Columbia will be there, but the loser, in a close finish, the worm turns, for in four close finishes, the Morningside Heights boat has second best four times. Navy, under young Buck Walsh, may triumph, since a crew is always considered dangerous in rough water. Can Callow do for Pennsylvania what...