Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casually upping the beat to a fast 36 for the final drive, Yale's power-stroking crew, built around three veterans of the 1956 Olympic winners, defeated Pennsylvania by 2½ lengths in the 27th Blackwell Cup on the rain-flattened Harlem River. On Carnegie Lake, rowing with five sophomores in the shell, Harvard won the 22nd Compton Cup by 2½ lengths over Princeton in record time, raising the probability that the traditional Yale-Harvard race in New London next month will be a keel-hauler for both crews and will settle the championship of the east...
Derby Day at Yale is no longer, but the lightweight race between the Crimson, Yale, and Princeton will take place at Derby, Connecticut again this Saturday. The triangular regatta for the Goldthwait Cup, with Princeton rated a slight favorite, should test the ability of the Crimson crew to its limit...
Princeton Crew Strong...
...Princeton definitely should be the better of the other two crews," Brown predicted. Although it lost to Cornell by about six feet earlier in the season, the Tiger lightweights set a course record on Lake Carnegie in Princeton last weekend. The Orange and Black was the only crew to defeat the Crimson lightweights last year, and then won the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley, England...
This year's undefeated varsity crew is "better than last year's," Brown stated. "The big question is whether they have improved sufficiently" to beat the improved Princeton boat. Both crews have rowed the identical times of 6:52 for the Henley distance this spring...