Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale's contention for the shorter distance may be explained by her defeat last year in which the crack University crew, stroked by motorboatman Loring raced across the half-mile finish line three lengths ahead (scoring like white men and not like the Crimson-Lampoon game) of the Eli boat after rowing at the low stroke of 44 throughout the entire distance. Yale's boat was stroked by Coach Murphy...
...Scout myself, but I have had some experience with that sort of work in Geology 4 and 5, and I know some excellent hikes the club might take out towards Medford and Malden. I learned how to find the North Pole with or without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost in the Arctic Ocean or go to jail. A Scout Club could go further and teach men semaphore so that they could understand what the little man in the bright red sweater does during football games...
...four-mile championship relay. It was the first time that the University had won a relay championship over this distance since 1901, and over any distance since 1916. But as the four University milers, Chapin, Tibbetts, Cutcheon, and Watters, romped through the distance to an easy victory over crack teams from Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown, Penn, and B. C., it seemed as if they had been in the habit of pulling down intercollegiate championships for years...
Harvard will be considerably handicapped in the four-mile race where it has drawn a back seat in tenth place. But in Chapin, Tibbetts, Cutcheon, and Watters, Coach Farrell has four milers who are capable of a 4.30 mile and less which may prove sufficient to beat the crack B. C. milers to the tape...
...addition, Coach Farrell will enter tomorrow a crack one mile relay team picked from the squad which left on Thursday. This team will probably be composed of Captain Merrill, Allen, Robb, and Kane...