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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week eight men who form a congenial group the 150 pound crew obliterated all vague comments about their organization, such as "fine looking crew," "smooth oarsmen", and "well coordinated boat" by bringing home the bacon in the figure of the Goldthwalt Cup, the symbol of their precedence over two other principal lightweight crews of the East. Yale and Princeton. The conquest was expected by many but few had dared to voice their opinions...
Bert Haines's prize package 150 pounders lived up to all hopes last Saturday as the first boat nosed out the Eli lightweight crew by a third of a length on Lake Carnegie to take the Goldthwait Cup. The Princeton crew was left three lengths in the wake...
With a superbly fast start, Vince Bailey paced the fifties out to a deek-length lead immediately at a beat of forty. From then on the Crimson crew gradually lengthened the lead until the half-mile mark at a 36, where it settled down to a stroke far lower than its opponents and kept its position to the end of the race...
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While they lost last year by a slight margin to the Eli boat, this year the Crimson lightweights take their place at its stakeboat as favorites. The Harvard crew will be boating four veterans behind last year's stroke, and should make an excellent showing against Yale...