Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crew, junior varsity vs. Penn...
...Penn State meet, a Philadelphia schoolteacher, 26-year-old Bob Stout, upset the Bronx Turners' favored Edward Scrobe, to take the all-round title and win the No. 1 Olympic berth on the men's team. A fellow member of Stout's Philadelphia club, wiry Housewife Clara Schroth Lomady, 31, won the all-round honors for women for the fourth year, clinched her No. 1 Olympic spot for the second time...
Saturday's win was the 12th Compton Cup triumph for Harvard crews in 13 races. Princeton won the Cup last season on the Charles. Olympic contenders Navy and Penn, next week's Crimson opponents, have also beaten Princeton, but neither of them as decisively as Harvard. Navy's two-length win over the Tigers was with a full sprint last weekend, while Harvard needed no sprint to win by the same margin. Navy, however, turned in an astonishing 8:27 time over a mile and three-quarters downstream course in beating Wisconsin on the Severn River the weekend. The record...
...classify anybody as favorites," he stated. "We have a good chance, and we're going down to win." It's a big victory for the Crimson. If Love's varsity doesn't beat Princeton, its hopes for an Olympic berth over the summer will be virtually shattered, because both Penn and Navy have proven themselves to be outstanding Olympic material...
Princeton lost to Navy by two lengths, and to Penn by three-quarters of a length