Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PHILADELPHIA, May 8--Navy's invincible crew, three year king of Eastern rowing, led Penn and Harvard to the finish today to win the Adams Cup for the third consecutive year and stand alone as the undefeated major crew in the East...
...Penn and the varsity had gone into today's race on the flat, muddy Schuylkill as the only other unscathed crews in major Eastern competition...
Over the mile and five-sixteenths Henley course they sorely pressed the Middie eight but lacked Navy's powerful sprint over the final quarter mile. Penn finished a length off the pace and Harvard trailed a length and a half back. The times were...
...Crimson's sole afternoon victory came in the freshman race between these three schools. The Yardling crew beat Navy by a length and Penn by two and a half lengths in the first race of the Skimmer Day festivities of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Crimson varsity the race was a matter of slowly lowering and then slowly raising its stroke without ever settling at a steady low cadence. Always in contention from its excellent start, the shell never dropped more than a deck length behind leading Penn and Navy...