Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bids to run outside of the Boston area. Barthel announced earlier in the season that he would not run anywhere outside a 50-mile radius of Boston, with perhaps one exception in late June. He recently turned down a chance to run in the Benjamin Franklin mile at the Penn Relays...
...Penn averages close to 190 pounds and is stroked by former Canadian sculls champion Jack Guest. The eight skimmed by all opposition in its two races this season, setting a course record for the Childs Cup on Lake Carnegie. The time was 8:59.1 with a strong quartering wind. This clocking compares with Harvard's record-setting race last Saturday when the varsity finished the same course in 3:49.5, nearly ten seconds lower...
...early season comments, Penn's coach criticized his crew's timing. "We are a big crew," said Burke, "but Penn is not a 21-Jewel piece of precision mechanism." He might also have pointed out that his eight is one of the strongest rowing this season...
...varsity defensive trio of Tom Cromp, Paul Jones, and John Hartwell made a superb showing. Goalie Steve DenHarteg also had a good day, but was outshone by the Penn goalie...
...ever run in New Zealand and one of the fastest ever run anywhere: 4:04.4, three seconds off the world record. Last week he was in Philadelphia, on leave from college, where he is studying to be a teacher, as a special guest for the invitation mile at the Penn Relays. Another special guest: Mai Whitfield, two-time Olympic champion half-miler, who was making his mile debut...