Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tabor Academy second crew, Harvard third 150 varsity, Harvard second freshmen...
During the middle of the freshman crew race exactly seven days ago, the MIT shell meandered absent-mindedly to the left and then to the right. MIT oarsmen have insisted ever since that "they wuz robbed" and had their boat only travelled in a straight line they would have kept the lead they managed to hold for more than a mile...
Hence MIT will literally to out for nine Harvard shirts when the two teams race again this afternoon. The first freshman crew that Boston University has ever trained is the third entry in the regatta...
...which has highly inadequate indoor crew facilities, supposedly spent the winter months on the water dodging ice floes while Harvard and MIT worked with machines and in tanks. This could be an indicator that the BU men will have an edge on their opposition in physical condition. No other knowledge about the BU freshman crew's talent, or lack of it, is available since it hasn't raced...
Harvey Love, the freshman crew coach, is contemplating several changes in the boating he started last week. A witch in the number four car, occupied in the season's opening race by Clem Despard, is especially probable because of the improvement of the number four man rowing thus far in the second boat...