Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Past Radcliffe-Harvard athletic relations have generally centered around crew, and during the war a Radcliffe eight scored an upset win over a Harvard beat. The Misses Jaffe, Reed, and Trygstad were hopeful that this feat could be repeated, but expressed fear that if they lost, crew custom might prevail in which case they would be forced to give their shirts to the victorious Harvardians...
Three months ago Tom Bolles' Varsity crew was knocking itself out in the United States Olympic trials. Most normal men would still be recovering from the ordeal of the four-mile Yale race and four Olympic sprints within a ten-day period, but today Harvard's crews are plying the waters of the Charles once more...
...fact in that Bolles has a wealth of material to choose from. Seven men are back from last year's jayvee boat, and the entire combination crew is still around. Sometime between now and next April 23, sufficient replacements should appear...
Mikkola held out more hope for his freshmen crew. He called it a very hopeful looking bunch of runners, but stated that it would be an unknown quantity until after the weekend's triangular meet. "They've only been running for a week now, and we won't be able to see how they're shaping up until they face a little competition...
...afternoon, Lou Boudroau and Kenny Keltner spared Boston the aesthetically unpleasant experience of a city series. We say aesthetically unpleasant because the horrid fact of the matter is that the majority of Boston rooters are Red Sex partisans, and a city series would have found Billy Southworth's gallant crew in the position of villain in the piece...