Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crews which finished behind Harvard's, only Rutgers had previously raced against the Bolles boat. The Scarlet oarsmen participated in the ill-fated Severn River regatta at Annapolis, in which the Harvard boat was last...
...oarsmen left last Saturday by plane for the 2,000 meter event which will see Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Navy, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, University of California, University of British Columbia, and, of course, the University of Washington Participating. Of this listing the first seven all defeated the crimson shell at Annapolis last month, though previously the local boatmen out stroked Princeton and MIT on the Charles...
...Bolle's oarsmen, fresh from their June 1 victory over Yale, a race that saw three boat-lengths of Charles River water between the Crimson and Eli shells at the finish, do not as yet know exactly how many of the 11 colleges that have been invited will be able to compete next week, but will undoubtedly encounter as severe a test as they have faced this season...
Returning to the Charles, a poor start figured in a one length loss to the previously beaten engineers. Bolles' oarsmen then downed the untried Yale eight with ease, but are promised some stiff competition to close the season next week...
...before the oarsmen could register their eighth consecutive sweep of the Blue crews (a streak unequalled in the history of the event) they had some tough going...