Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closest race of the University crews this spring the Senior eight, stroked by P. H. Watts '31, won its second victory over the Sophomore B crew by a scant six feet yesterday afternoon on the upstream course of the Basin...
From the start the race was a neck and neck affair, with the Junior crew stroked by R. I. McKessoir '31 slightly in the lead as the three shells passed under the Harvard bridge, at the end of the first mile...
...regular athletics of that season. They protest that if this practice of playing football for the three most crucial weeks in the final college semester were abolished, it would be possible for Harvard to assume a role of greater importance in such sports as lacrosse. Ignoring the fact that crew is the most popular spring athletic, activity, the supporters of this belief hold that the men who would be released if pre-season gridiron practice were relinquished would then be willing to participate in the minor sports...
...British penny press blazed with headlines: BRITISH CREW IN IRONS −BRITISH SKIPPER CHALLENGES U.S. CUTTER!−I'LL NOT SURRENDER!−100 SHOTS SINK BRITISH SHIP...
...broke through a light fog as the rival strokes dipped their blades. There was a hush−then cheers. For a moment the lighter Oxford crew drew ahead, with nervous high strokes. Another hush. Then the light blue, settling into regularity, caught up and moved on. At Craven Steps, marking the mile, Cambridge led by three-quarters of a boat-length, stroking 30 to the minute against Oxford's 32. At Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths...