Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penn, which habitually produces good crews, beat Yale in its season opener on the Schuylkill River on a Henley (one and five-sixteenths miles) course. Eight days ago at Columbia they also won a mile and a half race by a small margin on the Harlem River...
Scanty information about Navy indicates that the Middles will have a worthy eight in action. Columbia appears the least dangerous threat of the four opponents. Both the Lions and Pennsylvanians recorded fast times in their last race but they had the tide with them...
Harvard rowed a competent and relaxed race against MIT and BU last week. Its stroke never went above a 36 and was an easy 31 for the bulk of the race. Still, the freshmen's time was 9.4, which compares favorably with the varsity's 8:59.6. Hence the novice oarsmen's performance could be even better if they are pressured into quickening their boat...
...varsity crew puts on its final home performance at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon, in what should prove to be the best race so far this season. Navy, Penn, MIT, and Columbia will provide the opposition, and the Adams Cup will be at stake...
...cracks at Harvard already, and failed to come alarmingly close either time, although they did cut down the gap by several lengths in last week's race. As for Columbia, it has only managed to register two lasts in as many starts this year, falling victim to Princeton and Yale once and Penn twice...