Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...races are split into two preliminary morning heats, with the first three boats in each race qualifying for the finals this afternoon. The Crimson's entries should have little trouble getting past this first test, as the regatta committee carefully separates the leading contenders until the finals...
...outcome of these trials will probably find Yale, Princeton, Penn, Navy, and MIT, pitted against the Crimson. Perennially powerful, Cornell will probably not show up too well this year, as a result of the almost wholesale graduation of last year's powerful beat...
This can really cause the Crimson trouble if conditions are rough enough to force the race onto a special three-quarter mile "foul-weather course," which the regatta committee had laid out for the occasion. Harvard has had little or no experience at short distances, and Bill Curwen's normally low stroke is not suited to this kind of race...
Harvard came in 19 strokes behind BC. The Crimson fielded six men and counted the four best scores, as follows: Bill Rickenbacker 71, Bob Matson 78, Dick Q'Keeffe 79, and Herb Mee and Hugh Nawn...
Pete Putnam and Frank Scully will be sailing the 12-foot Crimson dinghies in the A and B competition, respectively. Crewing for Putnam will be Tom Carroll, while John Gardiner will crew for Scully...