Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race ground through grey dawn and a fine spring day, Fons blazed along in fine style. Coming into the last lap, less than 25 miles from the finish, he was running third. He could not have known, but the Ferrari team had the race won. His grizzled teammate, Piero Taruffi, 50, had already finished in first place. Far back, Britain's Stirling Moss, driving a Maserati, the Ferrari's only strong competitor, had lost his brakes and almost crashed in a roadside cemetery. The other Maserati competitors had also either folded or faded...
Joel Landau will have his hands full with rival Dick Fisk from Yale, who beat him last week in the high hurdles, but he appears to have only Roberson to fear in the lows. The varsity's Dave Rosenthal could finish as high as second in the latter...
...races, the Crimson heavies are seeded third on the basis of their second place finish over previously undefeated Penn last week. Navy, who won this race, is seeded second with the Big Red junior varsity in the number one ranking. The JV's, who have improved steadily throughout the season, have a good chance of beating Navy, but obtaining a victory over Cornell would be quite a task...
Lightweight coach Joe Brown's JV's are so erratic that it is very difficult to predict where they will finish. If they are "right," they could achieve the best time of any lightweight boat on the river; if they are off, they could finish almost anywhere...
...Landau nearly caught Fisk, even though he stumbled after clearing the last hurdle he fell across the finish line a scant two steps behind his Eli rival, but ahead of Yale's Keith Moore, who had upset him in the indoor Heps...