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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feels that a little more practice will smooth out the Varsity's style in the long, steady pull in mid-race. And a few more weeks of training will give them added stamina for the crucial sprint...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Bolles Not Depressed Over Defeat by Cornell | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

This bodes no good for the next item on Bolles' agenda, a race with Navy and Penn at Philadelphia on Saturday. The Middies, with seven returnees from last year, are generally regarded as Harvard's biggest rival in the East, and at this early date are much further along than their more northerly rival...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Bolles Not Depressed Over Defeat by Cornell | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

Pennsylvania, the third party in this race, is not expected to cause as much trouble, at least on the basis of past performance...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Bolles Not Depressed Over Defeat by Cornell | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

Musing over the Cornell race, Bolles feels disappointment but no bitterness. "That was no place for boys," says the coach. "I hate like hell to lose any race, but we did a fine job, and it took a fine crew to beat...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Bolles Not Depressed Over Defeat by Cornell | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

...second race, Eliot and Adams were deck and deck in the stretch when a Gold Coaster caught a crab, enabling the hard-pressed Mastodons to win by a length. Their time of 4:26 was the fastest of the day. Dudley's creaking, leaking hull finished third by about six lengths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons, Eliot And Puritans Win in Crew | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

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