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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since February the Navy's eight-oar crew had practiced in a bathtub-sized inlet at Annapolis called College Creek. The creek, only 400 yards long, wandered around four bends and under three bridges. Navy's crew banked around the turns, used more rudder than oars, cussed the creek, and seemed to have become a crack outfit. On the broad Hudson at the Poughkeepsie intercollegiate regatta last week, the Annapolis crew proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anchors Aweigh | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Primarily, their unenviable position as "the crew to beat" is because of their superb showing in the Eastern Association's 2000-meter sprint regatta at Princeton last month. The Varsity won going away from Navy and Cornell, the number one and two boats in the Poughkeepsie event, in the time of 6:05, just off the distance record. In addition, their nearest competitor was more than seven seconds behind...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Crew En Route to Washington Race | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...that night, Wednesday, Red Top--the crew's headquarters on the Thames--was fanned brightly by a post-regatta celebration as the climax of its brief spark of 1947 glory...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Crew En Route to Washington Race | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

Come Regatta Day--as last week, swarms of Crimson well-wishers have to be fought off by gatemen. Only parents of the crew and various official personages are admitted. Occasionally, however, the solitude of the Boathouse was broken early last Wednesday afternoon by the arrival of dinghies from the yachts off shore, looking for more beer...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Crew En Route to Washington Race | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

Besides baseball and softball, which are being organized into league competition. Summer Term students may choose their activities from among singles, crew, conditioning and special exercise classes, swimming, tennis, volley ball, and rehabilitation under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required P.T. Opens, Offering 10 Activities | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

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