Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet, but in a final spurt pulled nearly a length ahead of Coach Steven's first boat. The second University crew was two lengths behind half way down the course, when the wash from the launches forced them to stop rowing for a moment; from there to the finish they were in rough water and fell far behind...
...Derby. Yale, Penn, Columbia -they would finish in that order, prophets said. The Yale crew of course has acquired, in the last three years, a legend of invincibility; people thought that Penn had a good crew, but not good enough; Columbia was not in it. In a wash of golden light that would have been sunset if daylight-saving had not turned it into midafternoon, the boats moved out; Penn was in front, Yale next, Columbia last. A mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand...
...rivals on the last half mile of the Henley course, the smoothly working Princeton 150-pound crew rowed to a big three championship last Saturday on the Charles. Yale a pre-race favorite was never in it after the first quarter mile and trailed both her adversaries to the finish...
...race was practically decided beneath the bridge. With the onlookers calling loudly for a Crimson spurt, Princeton suddenly jumped ahead with a higher count and came out into open water again well in the lead. From then until the finish line was reached the Black and Orange lightweights increased their advantage to a full length. The Harvard boat never stopped fighting, however, and actually pulled up a few feet in the last 100 yards...
...dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile mark of 40 seconds and came back in his second race to nip Wells, the speedy Dartmouth hurdler, as the finish of the 220 yard low hurdles for first honors in 25 seconds. Captain Tibbetts ran away from the field in the two mile run with E. C. Haggerty '27 chasing him all the way to the tape, to smash his own record by one and a fifth seconds. His time...