Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sabo is considered by Harman as one of his most valuable finds of the year. The hard-driving fullback is the loading ground-gainer on the Rutgers crew and has amassed a total of 804 yards earned on the turf for an average of 8.3 yards gained per attempt...
...Crimson boats, captained by Tom Day and Frank Scully, are entered along with crafts from M.I.T., Yale, Brown, B.C., and other colleges. Pete Putnam and John Gardner will crew as the Crimson seeks to win its second major yachting race of the current term...
President Eliot, when asked why, though a crew enthusiast, he never went to football games, answered tartly, "It's too much like a circus." That probably was at once the great drawback and beauty of the game during the Eighties. There were no forward passes and no real blocking, and yet the scores were phenomenally large. Part of the reason may be that organized defense systems were unknown, and the kicking was plentiful and accurate...
...accident happened not in malice, but in a football game; Woodman played tackle on the Varsity in 1887, and owns the distinction of having kicked twenty field goals in what was, at least quantitatively, Harvard's greatest victory, a 154-0 smearing of Exeter Academy. Captain of the Freshman crew, he decided to switch to football when his grandfather, who wielded the family stick, said he'd have to choose between the two. He remembers his crew days with the greatest of pleasure, and tells how once, when the crew was not rowing up to par, he let forth...
Captain Sisto resigned (many airmen thought he should have been fired, many others thought he should have been jailed). If the plane had crashed, killing passengers and crew, it would doubtless have been added to the list of unexplainable accidents...