Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale, in winning the varsity event, clocked 6:18.4 to the Crimson's 6:20.6. Princeton, which snatched the Compton Cup from the varsity two weeks age lengths behind with a 6:28.4. It was the first time on record that the Big Three colleges were also the first three in the E.A.R.C. sprints...
...Princeton's crew, in an upset over Harvard and M.I.T., the Compton Cup, the first time since 1937 that Harvard has failed to win the race, the fourth time since the arrival of Coach Tom Bolles (in 1937) that Harvard has been beaten on its home waters; in Cambridge, Mass...
After 15 years the Tiger finally caught Tom Bolles. Not since 1936, the year before Bolles came to Harvard, had the Princeton varsity crew beaten the Crimson in the Compton Cup regatta, but Saturday on the Charles the Orange and Black pulled a slight upset and finally broke Harvard's string of Compton Cup victories at nine...
...varsity heavy race, after spotting the Bolles-coached crew half a length, an inspired Princeton boat gradually moved up, passed Harvard at the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, and won by a length and a quarter going away. M.I.T., which lost to the Crimson by one foot in last year's Compton Cup race, was never in the running, and finished over four lengths behind the winners...
Today they will watch numerous sporting events, highlighted by the Compton Cup crew race on the Charles at 4 p.m. The annual formal dance will begin at 8 p.m. tonight at the Union. Corsages will be distributed and the Krokodiloes will sing...