Word: mits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contributing to the Crimson sweep, Coach Larry Coolidge's revamped varsity lightweight crew slapped down a previously undefeated and highly-confident MIT eight by about three lengths after repeated delays in the last race of the evening. Dartmouth finished third, far behind...
...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...
...Yale heavy-weight crew also swept their MIT counterparts on the mile course, and their times could have told something for the future, had not the day been so nearly ruined by the weather. The Ells' time for an approximate mile was 5:59, compared to Harvard's 5:41, but nobody knew if they rowed the same distance, or if the conditions were the same for each race...
Last year in the Biglin Cup, the light-weights squeezed by MIT by three-tenths of a second, and Dartmouth followed about four lenghths behind. Today's race promises to be just as close, and an exciting one to see if the riverbank is not crowded. Dartmouth will not be easy game, however, despite its poor showing last year...
...first freshman lightweights will also face Dartmouth and MIT, and the time of that race is 2:30 p.m. Contests on the Charles will run all afternoon, and in fact, during part of the morning, from 10 a.m. through...