Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question whether the team is good enough to beat Dartmouth, the answer should be yes if it plays the sort of ball of the which it is capable and which it did play in streaks during the Tech game. However, any play of the type exhibited in the Tufts game and in most of the practice sessions of the past two weeks will be fatal to the Crimson chances...
Dartmouth does not have an extremely good team. They, like Harvard, have lost to Williams 3 to 2, as well as to the league leaders, Springfield and Wesleyan, by one goal margins, and they have beaten M.I.T. 3 to 1 and Massachusetts State 6 to 1. But one man, Eckhart, is responsible for more than half of their goals, standing second in the New England league standings with eight points to his credit. The game this afternoon is likely to resolve itself into a contest of Eckhart vs. Harvard...
Comstock, with a light, fast crew is figured to win by inner rowing circles, but Anderson and Gray should give him a good fight. All the boats are remarkably even in rowing material...
However, there was one interesting reflection cast by this race and that is the question of form. It was not too hard a race for the Juniors, and they won decisively, but their form was almost ragged at times. The catching was not good, and all in all they were anything but a polished crew. Not only that, but they were paced by a relatively inexperienced stroke. Meanwhile the Senior boat pulled through evenly and showed excellent form, but they were left in the lunch...
...another time Tom Bolles pitted three class crews against each other. In this race the 1941 crew won, but once again it would almost have been called obvious from a quick glance at the boatings. Stroked by Sherm Gray, the Junior boat was made up with a good many members of last year's varsity. In addition the eight was enhanced by the presence of Behn Riggs who felt that he was unable to row last year what with the press of scholastic work...