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...Navy: the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship, by one-half length over favored Cornell; on Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. Bucking a 12-m.p.h. head wind, the fast-stroking (36 strokes per minute) Middies pulled into an early lead in the 15-boat field, fought off a strong challenge by Cornell in the last 150 yds. to win the three-mile race...
...California traveled East for last week's 62nd annual I.R.A. regatta, undefeated in six West Coast races this year, the competing coaches got together and voted twice-defeated Cornell the crew to beat. California thought that was a fine idea. And on New York State's Lake Onondaga, they did it with ease...
...precision. Cornell's twice-beaten varsity crew pulled past the rest of the 13-boat field about a mile out and raced through the final two miles to win the grueling 60th Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship two lengths ahead of previously undefeated Washington on Syracuse's Onondaga Lake. The Big Red will probably race next against one of Soviet Russia's always strong eight-oared crews at the Fourth of July Independence Day Regatta in Philadelphia...
...Leading almost all the way, California's varsity crew stroked home half a length in front of Cornell at Onondaga Lake, New York, for its second straight Intercollegiate Rowing Association title. At New London, Conn., Harvard's varsity swept to an impressive seven-length victory over Yale in the traditional four-mile race down the Thames River...
...Indians of the Five Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) were called Iroquois by the French because they allegedly closed conversations with the words hiro ("I have spoken") and koué ("with joy" or "with sorrow," depending on the tone of voice used...