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...race last year by a fall at the first jump, managed to clear all 30 barriers, win the 1953 Grand National by 20 lengths. ¶In London, in rowing's most rugged (4½ mi.) race, the Cambridge crew, with a Cambridge, Mass, oarsman named Louis McCagg pulling a sturdy No. 6 oar, upset Oxford by eight lengths. ¶In Columbus, Yale's well-balanced swimming team, piling up points in all but two of the 14 events, defeated Ohio State's defending champions 96½-73½, for the N.C.A.A. team title...
...Louie McCagg, who stroked the Crimson crew for the past three seasons, last week helped pull England's Cambridge University to an eight length upset victory over Oxford on the Thames...
...McCagg '52, stroke of the Crimson varsity crew for the last three years, will soon row on the Cambridge University crew which once beat him. McCagg is studying at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on a special fellowship...
...Crimson's long supremacy over the British crew was shattered in 1951, when McCagg's boat was beaten by Cambridge...
Until the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge the Big Red held about a two-thirds of a length lead and although McCagg upped the best again, the Crimson could gain only a couple of seats on Cornell. McCagg raised the stroke to a 33 and then gradually all the way to a 41, which the Crimson held for the entire last quatrer mile in a terrific final sprint. But Harvard's oarsmen couldn't quite do it. They closed a little on Cornell but the Big Red matched their sprint, and won. Love expects no more boating changes before the June...