Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 10,000 spectators lined the shore of Onondaga Lake, at Syracuse, N.Y., for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta. For the first time in years, Syracuse University's home-town crew was picked to win. As Referee Clifford ("Tip") Goes sent the shells streaking away from their stake boats, no one paid much attention to the University of Wisconsin's crew, which had not even been good enough to qualify for the finals of the Eastern sprint championships last month, had, in fact, wound up dead last in the consolation race...
...Bible closer to the people, Vignal's La Bibbia soon encountered more trials than Job. The Italian Rabbinical Council denounced La Bibbia as "sacrilege"; Milan's Roman Catholic Cardinal Montini withdrew the nihil obstat of the church. Sales slumped, and ugly rumors grew that Vignal's crew of actors, who posed for the crude Biblical scenes, lived private lives of less than Biblical probity...
...94th renewal of the U.S.'s oldest intercollegiate sporting event, Harvard's smooth-stroking varsity crew led from the start, fashioned a workmanlike 2½ length victory over Yale in a four-mile race on the Thames at New London, Conn...
Although the varsity is favored on the basis of its record-breaking performances this year--it also holds the Charles River mark of 8:45 flat--the Elis have their normally strong crew. Undefeated before the EARC sprints where they finished third to the Crimson and Syracuse, Coach Jim Rathschmidt's men are playing themselves down but would like nothing better than to beat the Henley bound varsity...
...even greater extent than in any other sport, the outcome of the traditional Yale race determines the success of the crew season. Capture of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in July would be the supreme achievement in rowing but before that there is a large debt to be paid back against the Elis on the Thames of Connecticut the second Saturday in June. And the Crimson has the crew...