Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appropriately, the Penn crew that won the Adams Cup last week was coached by Diamond Sculler Joe Burk, who learned his sweep-swing from Rusty Callow. Rusty is the man who made Navy great. He arrived at Annapolis in 1950, put in an unsuccessful year, and then watched his crews sink right out from under him-on the flood-swollen waters of the Ohio River in June 1951, three Navy shells were wrecked. But Callow and Navy did a quick salvage job. From Meilahti Gulf, Finland to Newport Beach, Calif., they won race after race, including the 1952 Olympic championship...
When defeat finally came last week, it was far from a disgrace. Navy's new and inexperienced oarsmen pushed Penn to the fastest time ever clocked on that mile-and-a-quarter course: 8:47.7. Coach Callow was not at all disheartened, for he had the makings of another great eight. Now that the Middies have learned to lose, said he, "Navy will have to start budgeting for crew shirts...
...come-from-behind spirit of this year's team. The Lions had been ahead by three runs going into the fifth inning, but the varsity won in the end. Princeton had a two-run lead in the fifth, and the varsity also won. That's the story with Tufts, Penn, and others...
Dartmouth has split six games in Ivy competition, beating Columbia, Penn, and Navy, while losing to Princeton, Brown, and Cornell. Overall, the Indians have won eight, lost nine. A predominantly sophomore team, the squad has been especially weak in hitting...
Last Saturday on the Charles River the junior varsity crew finished within three seconds of winner Penn and second place Navy. First time...