Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feature race for the lightweights will be the varsity contest for the Biglin Cup. Altogether, there will be ten races on the Charles tomorrow as both the lightweight and heavyweight squads send all their crews racing up the course...
...wonderful rise of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last week, in the first all-Canadian hockey final since 1951, Montreal's Canadiens brought the saga to an end, defeating the Leafs 5-3 to become the first team in National Hockey League history to carry off the Stanley Cup four years in a row. But the Canadiens' remarkable accomplishment had to share top billing with the Leafs' improbable achievement in being there at all. Only two months ago the Leafs were sunk in the league cellar, with no prospects of getting...
...Toronto fans benumbed: the Leafs who went into March like lambs roared out like lions. Only five games from schedule's end, the New York Rangers were seven points ahead of Toronto and comfortably installed in fourth place, a ranking that secures a place in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But the Leafs, who had not won more than two games in a row all season, got the coach's message, streaked to five big wins, the mesmerized Rangers collapsed. In the N.H.L.'s tensest finale in years, the Leafs were trailing Detroit 2-0 when they heard...
...oarsmen lined the shores, cheering as the sculling Crimeds, unpracticed since they retired the Janiero Cup on the Tagus last year, clocked the astonishing time of 4:22.3 over the measured mile. As one veteran, himself once known as "the Jim Thorpe of rowing"--exclaimed, "These youngsters have shown out here today that skill and integrity still have a place in collegiate athletics...
...rare burst of ambition, the Lampoon has challenged an undefeated CRIMSON crew to a one-mile race tomorrow morning. As one old-timer put it, "This is like entering a dredge in the America's Cup race...