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...Newell, where he rowed on the varsity eight last year, by winning the three-quarter mile senior singles race. Reeling out a long, powerful stroke with a slow, lazy recovery to the half-mile mark, Emmet raised the stroke to 35 per minute on the last half-mile to outspurt Homer Zink, quarter-mile ace, by a boat length. The time: 5:10.0, the second best course time ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emmet Becomes University Single Sculls Champion | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

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