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...Crimson was on the receiving end of some of its own medicine Saturday afternoon when Cornell's powerful eight, although under stroking Captain Ted Lyman's boat, slowly eked out a half-length lead just after the three-quarter mile mark. Eventually Harvard's superior coordination and precision allowed Bus Curwen to raise the beat to a breathless 42, and in the final 20 strokes the Varsity surged ahead for the first time during the race to gain a nerve-wracking deck-length victory, enabling Harvard to retain the Rowe Memorial Cup for at least another year...
Events happened fast and furiously yesterday afternoon, and when the wash died down Harvard had a new Varsity 150-pound crew. The so-called "Junior Varsity," stroked by Frank Cunningham, produced a half-length victory over Johnny Abbot's "Varsity" eight, and thereby won the right to carry the Crimson colors into the Rowe Cup Regatta Saturday...
Eliot's second crew, stroked by Doug Rumsey, had things all its own way. Jumping to a half-length lead over the field in the first ten strokes, the seconds eased over the course in 7:27, finishing three lengths ahead of Adams House, without raising the stroke at the end. Lowell came in third ahead of Winthrop and Kirkland...
Captain Seth Crocker's boat won the race the hard way. All three shells left the mark evenly, but by the half-mile marker the Tigers were out in front by a deck-length, and they stretched their margin to a half-length by the Harvard Bridge. At this point Caleb Brokaw, the Crimson coxswain, called for twenty strokes, and Harvard moved up even with the Tigers at the mile mark...
...expected from Trumbull College, the champion Yale College crew. The "fourth Varsity," as the Merryman eight is called, jumped to an early start as Trumbull faltered, but the Bulls rowed a higher, if more ragged stroke, and were closing in on Eliot when it finished the mile course a half-length winner...