Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Kirkland won only one spring sport, crew, by piling up seconds and thirds the Deacons widened their lead over the Bellboys. Lowell, however, won the inter-House track meet and tied with Adams in the baseball league. Fourth-place Winthrop copped House tennis honors...
...Deacons took an early lead of two lengths and held it with a minimum of effort. Their well balanced crew, repeating its triumph of Wednesday afternoon when it defeated its inter-House rivals, completely outclassed he Elis and increased its lead in the closing yards by another full length...
Under fair water conditions four Varsity boats, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Harvard, rowed up to a flying start for a two mile race, while thunderheads were threatening overhead. At the mile rain curtained the boats as they rowed down the course, Harvard out ahead with the largest early lead of any contest this season. Syracuse was second, followed by Penn, with the Big Red trailing the fleet...
...failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights managed to keep the water from lapping at the gunwales inboard until they reached...
...afternoon, the Jayvees took the Syracuse boat for the second time this year by an expected length and left the Big Red Junior Varsity and Penn straggled along in that order. From the flying start to the finish the Jayvees rowed their own race and maintained a satisfactory lead over the Orangemen...