Word: penn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penn, which habitually produces good crews, beat Yale in its season opener on the Schuylkill River on a Henley (one and five-sixteenths miles) course. Eight days ago at Columbia they also won a mile and a half race by a small margin on the Harlem River...
...varsity crew puts on its final home performance at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon, in what should prove to be the best race so far this season. Navy, Penn, MIT, and Columbia will provide the opposition, and the Adams Cup will be at stake...
Harvard will win by about two lengths, if all the entries run true to their previous form. Penn should cross second, followed by MIT, Navy, and Columbia in that order...
Things could be different, of course, but a look at previous results marks the Crimson as a definite favorite. For instance, Harvard opened its season two weeks ago by beating Princeton easily; the Tigers turned around the following week to leave Penn four seconds behind...
...already, and failed to come alarmingly close either time, although they did cut down the gap by several lengths in last week's race. As for Columbia, it has only managed to register two lasts in as many starts this year, falling victim to Princeton and Yale once and Penn twice...