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...varsity lightweights at Princeton won easily in what turned out to be a contest with their own JV's. Winning by a length and a quarter, they turned in a time of 6:42.5 over the Henley distance, just seven tenths of a second faster than the JV's who won by two and a half lengths...
Earlier, Coolidge's JV boat had won by a wide margin in a shortened course. The varsity and Coach Fred Cabot's freshmen were actually the only crews of the afternoon to row their scheduled distances, the Henley mile and five-sixteenths. It was in the freshmen race that the MIT boat sank after two minutes, and Cabot was so busy rescuing the survivors he never saw his crew...
With a mile to go in the Henley distance, which is a mile and 5/16, the varsity led by a quarter length. The lead increased to a length with a half mile to go. The Middies raised the stroke to a 35 for the closing sprint, but Coolidge's "inexperienced" boat added a length to its lead without going above...
...University's Eliot House crew was defeated in the semi-finals of the Thames Challenge Cup race of the Royal Henley Regatta last Saturday...
...record, including Ivy League champions in hockey and outstanding squash, track, lacrosse, and tennis teams. Although the Yale football and swimming juggernauts could not be stopped in 1960-61, other teams compiled eminently satisfactory records against Yale. In 1958, the lightweight crew won the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley, and repeated the feat in 1959 and 1960, the first three-straight victory in 92 years...