Word: onondaga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...
...first time this year the Crimson was threatened as Penn moved up near the finish. But the varsity showed the 15,000 spectators on the shores of Lake Onondaga that it was able to speed and yet continue to row cleanly. Harvard took the stroke up to 41 and won by open water in 6:48.8 despite a strong headwind...
...test of the year comes for the high-riding varsity, jayvee, and freshman crows this afternoon, when 11 top rowing colleges meet on Lake Onondaga at Syracuse to battle for the sprint championship of the cast...
Yesterday, the freshmen worked out morning and afternoon to get used to the Lake Onondaga course. Today they row a qualifying heat at 10 a.m. and if successful they go again in the finals...
This year's probable site: Syracuse's Onondaga Lake...