Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cross country team will meet Cornell at Ithaca on November 4 and the dual race with Yale will be run over the Belmont course on November 11. The season will close with the Intercollegiates at New Haven the morning of the Yale football game, November 25. Besides these major contests there will probably be a dual meet with Massachusetts Institute of Technology October...
...which it would not be possible to gain in any other way. It strengthened me in the belief of the determination of the English nation to pursue the war to complete and conclusive victory, Ample proof was given that the English, rather than the Germans, are the efficient race. The former have raised and equipped an army in two years with a perfection which excels what the latter has been able to do in a decade. The entire equipment of transportation from the munition plants to the front has been made with a thoroughness that must challenge the admiration...
...were rowing individually strongly but utterly lacking in rythm. The University boat was a well ordered machine efficiently doing the work it was made for, while the Yale shell was filled with eight powerful oarsmen who failed simply because they lacked unity and precision. The official time of the race was 20.02, eight seconds better than the mark set up by the Yale crew...
...University captured both the morning races, the second crew winning an easy race in 10.25, while the freshmen after a bad start followed the Yale boat until the last quarter mile when by a splendid spurt, they caught up on their opponents and led at the finish by two and two-fifths seconds, with a time...
...freshman four oar was also successful, finishing eleven seconds ahead of the Yale youngsters. The only race to go to Yale was the gentlemen's eight, which the Eli graduates captured handily...