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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, with every avenue apparently closed, extinction of the champion crew seems certain. Reassuring word for any disappointed Crimson oarsmen, however, has drifted down from Northampton, where a boatload of inexperienced but definitely eager beauties has been training all fall, and is apparently ready and willing to take a crack at the Charles Challenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: River Breezes to Wave No Chemises As Impoverished' Cliffe Drops Crew | 3/7/1947 | See Source »

...almost any standards, last year's crew was not successful. After coming in second to Cornell in the opener (they beat out Princeton with a terrific surge in the last quarter mile), the oarsmen journeyed unfruitfully to Annapolis, coming in ninth in a field of nine, lost to M.I.T. on the Charles, whipped an unpracticed Yale crew for the eighth successive time, and accepted an invitation to the Washington regatta in Seattle during the summer term. In the far reaches of the West, the crew came in fifth among ten crews, but were driving hard at the finish and probably...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

After Madame Chiang substituted oarsmen, the Gissimo joked that the only thing wrong with the party had been a Western device-that smelly, noisy engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Happy Birthday | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...crew stroked by Seligman won by default over Morris' crew in the first heat of the contest Monday. Stroke Steward and his oarsmen defeated an aggregation stroked by Emmet in the second, and Cunningham's crew won over Ross's in the third sprint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Compete for Fall Championship as Season Nears End | 11/6/1946 | See Source »

...purpose of this fall practice, Bolles said, is not to try and form definite boats for next year's competition, but to perfect the form of the individual oarsmen. The practice sessions are scheduled to last until the first week in November, or the formation of ice on the Charles, whichever comes earlier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tom Bolles Launches Autumn Crew Practice On Rainswept Charles | 10/1/1946 | See Source »

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