Word: crew
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...country's most colorful crew race will be held once again this year. William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics announced yesterday that arrangements have been completed for the 81st rowing of the Harvard-Yale water classic June 1 on the Charles River...
...expected that Yale will prepare for the Crimson race with a series of intercollegiate meets. The New Haven crew was organized early in April, when the renewal of the classic was first proposed. Confirmation of the arrangements was made here only after the details had been completely set, although the move was entirely expected...
While this meet will be the only intercollegiate race of the year for the Blue crew, inactive since 1942, it will climax a formal schedule of four races for Tom Bolles' charges, who are now priming for their Saturday meeting with Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on the Charles. The race will start at the Cottage Farm Bridge, near the Tech boathouse, and finish on the approaches to the West Boston Bridge off the Community Yacht Club float...
Bert Hayue's not-so diminutive 150-pounders yesterday flouted the backs of their oars to the varsity crew, as they shattered an ancient tradition of heavy-weight predominance in the Charles River practice sessions. Although the varsity shaved its target of 9:30 for the 1 3/4 mile course, they trailed the 150s by three lengths after 11/4 miles and crossed the finishline a length and a half behind the jayvees...
...There's going to be an open season for replacements in the first crew," Coach Tom Bolles commented dryly in Newell Boat House after yesterday afternoon's workout. "Despite the fact that this was our best time of the year, in many ways it was our worst relative performance," he said...