Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third straight year, the crews of Eliot House swept the Charles in the finals of the House races held over a placid Henley in the basin yesterday afternoon. In the day's other trials, Frank Cunningham's Jayvee 150's upset the Varsity lightweights, and the Jayvee heavies reasserted their superiority over the third Varsity...
...Jayvees did their part towards making Saturday afternoon successful by chalking up an easy win. Stroke Frank Cunningham loafed along at 30 most of the way, while the Tigers and the Blue were the high side of 34 during the whole race...
...same time the Jayvees, which as the Varsity beat Tech by four lengths two weeks ago, and the Freshmen will also carry the Harvard colors into the fray. They '45 sweepswingers are untested as yet, but everyone knows that the Jayvees, stroked by Frank Cunningham, are very nearly the Varsity's peers...
...Frank Cunningham's Jayvees jumped the Varsity by a half length at the start and extended this margin by another quarter before the race was half over. Captain Bobby Lincoln's Varsity began to make up the deficit from the mile mark on, as the rough water hindered both crews in raising the stroke. Over the last twenty strokes the bows were exactly even, and as both strokes were catching at the same time, the relative positions of the two shells never changed as they drove to an exciting, if inconclusive finish...
Lanky Junior Bill Drury seems to be the key man in the scrambled situation, for until two weeks ago he was rowing on the thirds and Abbot was beating Cunningham. Then Coach Bert Haines moved Drury up to the Jayvees, and Cunningham beat Abbot, entered the Rowe Cup, and left Tech four lengths behind. Drury then jumped to the Varsity behind Abbot, as Dick Moot moved back to three; and with this change the Varsity reasserted itself convincingly...