Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temporary addition of nearly a dozen members of the class crew squad to Coach Brown's University squad for three days of rowing has given rise to a large amount of shifting of oarsmen in an attempt to select the best first and second University eights as well as five upperclassmen for the combination crew. Yesterday three revamped crews took a long workout and several additional substitutes were shifted from the coaching launch to the shells during the course of the afternoon...
Glendon coached crews never have raced each other in a dual meet until this year-as you have stated-but in the 1924 Olympic tryouts, Glendon Sr.'s Navy Officers' crew met and defeated "Rich's" midshipmen. Yale, in turn, beat the officers' "Grandfather Eight" by a few yards...
...Manhattan. He had pleaded with her over the telephone and cable and through the U. S. State Department not to sail on the Graf Zeppelin from Friedrichshafen. She did sail, early one fair morning last week, with Susi, female gorilla, 17 male passengers and the Zeppelin's crew of 40 (Dr. Hugo Eckener commanding...
Carnegie Cup. Gleefully tugging against the elastic water of Lake Cayuga last week, Yale's crew beat Cornell in the Carnegie Cup race-the first Cornell defeat of the season. Throughout the race it rained. Princeton, also competing, finished last. Where other crews use a long stroke, Princeton crews use a short, choppy stroke which Coach Chuck Logg learned at the University of Washington. Last week, Coach Chuck said he would not yet chuck his system...
...competition for light-weight crews, Columbia, winner of last year's cup is rated as the big favorite. Harvard is given the advantage over Yale in this class because of its victory over the Blue on the Charles last Saturday, but Penn and Princeton, the other two contenders; are dark, horses and may upset all the dope. The University crew is minus the services of Donough Prince '31, flashy stroke man, whose place will be taken by T. N. Perkins, Jr. '31. J.Q. Adams '31 will take the latter's seat at No. 2 and the rearranged crew will meet...