Word: hoppin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a fifty-fifty chance to win this year's national sailing championships," Commodore John Bishop comments on the Crimson yachtsmen's 51-52 season. Bishop adds that if all goes as he hopes, "It will be mainly due to the magnificent sailing of Charlie Hoppin...
...Crimson captains would be hold enough--or rash enough--to make a prediction of an All-American victory for their teams. But yachtsmen here have been ahead in intercollegiate racing since it began. For instance, last year they took second place to M.I.T. in the national championships. Once again, Hoppin made the master-stroke, winning his 'B' Division race...
Heading the lineup is Bishop, who as Commodore is automatically team captain. After Bishop comes Tom Chinlund, the Vice-Commodore, then: Hoppin, Tim Brown, Phil Buckner, Tom Carroll, Butch Horner, Dean Howells, Jimmy Nathanson, John Newhall, and George Robertson...
...Schell Trophy on Sunday, skippers Bishop and Hoppin ran up the two highest scores of 91 and 90 respectively, each man competing ten times. Hoppin, with Tom Carroll crewing for him, won the 'A' division race, and Bishop and his crew, Butch Horner, topped...
...Atlantic championships at Annapolis. Should the College skippers win these, they would automatically become the country's East Coast champions. Commodore Bishop forecast they would have a "tough job, but not more so, necessarily, than beating M.I.T." Unfortunately, of the Crimson's winning triumvirate, Bishop Hoppin, and Nathanson, Hoppin will be unable to make the trip down...