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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Qualifiers in this meet will enter the National tryouts at the Stadium on July 6 and 7. Harvard will have another representative in these finals when R. G. Luttman '28, winner of the intercollegiate mile title this year, will toe the mark in the 1500-metre event. By virtue of his championship victory, Luttman was excused from participation in the preliminary tryouts...
...Crimson eights heading down the Thames with the wind and tide. Rowing in short stretches at the order of Coach Brown, the oarsmen drilled for some time on raising and lowering the stroke smoothly. Other faults revealed in the time trial were worked upon until the three mile mark was reached. At this point the shells came about and paddled at a moderate beat the return distance to the boathouse...
...afternoon, the University crew paddled down to the three mile mark at a slow pace followed closely by Coach Brown in the "Black Pup" correcting the individual faults which were revealed in the four mile time trial last Saturday. On the return journey, Captain Watts did not lift the stroke above...
...were called to our mark. We were set. The gun was fired. We were off together the first time. Slowly Abrahams pulled away, and he broke the tape well ahead. He deserved to win, because he was the best man that...
...That four members of the American team should conspire to a trick quite as dishonorable as tripping or knocking down a superior opponent, that they should go to the mark prepared to carry out their miserable plot, that, when at the last moment some shred and tatter of decency stopped them, they should glory in their sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme...