Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acceptance of Wellesley's powerful crew to the Lowell House challenge to a race was announced by the Bellboys last night. At the same time it was announced that Smith had spurned the offer of the House oarsmen...
...battery of jubiliant oarsmen got off their train at the South Station last evening, they scemed to be heading for a successful season with Navy now the biggest cloud on the horizon ahead. Princeton is no mean crew, and Captain Eddie Bennett's eight trimmed them, cleanly and soundly...
...last week, after a change in the seatings, the Tiger crew went on a time trial and smashed their Lake Carnegio course record. Their confidence waned as they watched a Harvard Jayvee boat plow through sloppy water to make up a deficit of more than a length and cross the finish line in a blaze of glory...
Down the first half mile the two crews rowed bow to bow, stroke to stroke, Harvard always using the slower stroke, Princeton combining the higher stroke with a longer layback. A bit lighter than their rivals, the 181 pound Harvard crew was packing the power in as they took an infinitestimal lead about half way through the course...
...stroke went up a little and as it did the Harvard boat, inch by inch, pulled into the lead. It was slow business, but it was sure. Down the last quarter it was all Tom Bolles's boys. Up and up went the stroke as the crew shot away from Princeton's tiring crew, past blaring automobile horns and wildly yelling Harvardians watching their rowing Renaissance. The Varsity didn't look quite as smooth as the Jayvees had, but in true Washington style they were winning that race in its closing stages...