Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rowers' backs. It affected both crews equally, but the varsity did not have a decent day's practice all last week, while the weather at Princeton was relatively calm. Consequently, the Tiger crew was in somewhat better shape for the race and had the stamina to put on the finish that they...
...Finish. Willing to try anything to make their charges swim faster. Australian coaches experiment with special diets (Murray Rose stokes up on seaweed jelly) and novel styles. A few have even tried hypnotism. But like good coaches anywhere, they depend most on grinding work. In the year preceding the Melbourne Olympics, Australian team members trained hard for ten months, swam six days a week, covered an estimated 80 miles apiece each month. Many of them took a ten weeks' calisthenics course in a Sydney gym, tossed medicine balls, chinned the horizontal bar, did pushups. Buoyant...
...equalled the Harvard record of 9.8 seconds in the 100-yard dash. His record was disallowed because of a ten-mile per hour wind at his back. Sandy Dodge placed second. Princeton's Bob Brown handed Landau his first hurdles loss of the season, as he lunged across the finish line to win the 120-yard high hurdles in 15.3 seconds...
...Crimson actually won the race at this point, for by staying ahead of Syra- cuse while still being overstroked, the varsity had the stamina left at the end to hold off the Orange's power finish. Syracuse was clocked at 8:49, a scant .6 behind the varsity. M.I.T. trailed by three lengths with B.U. another two lengths behind...
...race followed the same pattern as the varsity race, except that Syracuse's final beat of 38 was just too much for the Crimson oarsmen. The Orange eight won by a half length and was going away at the finish...