Word: elling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race, and never, going into the race, had he lost to Yale. As a matter of fact, before people saw Navy's crew that year they had plugged the Crimson as the shell to beat for the Olympics. The Yale crew hadn't won a race all year. And Ell coach Jim Rathschmidt had juggled his boating right...
...year before it was the other way around. Yale--except for a loss to the visiting Cambridge crew--had an undefeated season, and had defeated the Crimson in the Eastern sprints. It was Jim Rathschmidt's first Ell shell, and it was the first time a Tom Bolles crew was an underdog. Right before the race they announced that Bolies--now athletic director, would retire as crew coach. But his last race was a good...
...Murray took second in the shot, while Emil San Soucie was third in the two mile. The Crimson mile relay team of Phil Meyers, Richards, Rittenburg and Howe was second behind Yale's 3:22. Thresher and Price sparked the Ell quartet...
Earlier in the evening, Emerson stayed with the Blue's O'Connor until the last lap, when the Ell junior opened a comfortable lead to win the 100-yard breaststroke. O'Connor did 1:00.5 for a pool record, Emerson was timed in 1:02.9. The Crimson's Ralph Zani, third in the 200 breaststroke, took fifth in the shorter distance, although his time was better than the fourth place finisher...
Williams' Milward Martin and the Ell's undefeated Kerry Donovan put on the night's best race, in the 100 freestyle. The shorter stockier Donovan went ahead at the start and turns, but on the last 20 yards the faster Martin caught him and just touched the finish line first. His time of 50.3 broke the meet and pool record of 50.5, which he set in the afternoon's heats. Donovan did 50.4. Yale's defending champions, Don Sheff, took third with a 51.5. time. Dave Hedberg, ace Crimson sprinter, and fourth last year, failed to qualify in the afternoon...