Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second 150-pound oarsmen dropped a one-sided race to the powerful Browne and Nichols schoolboy eight by three lengths. The time for this event was six minutes and 11 seconds...
...feature of the meet will be the fact that the outstanding performers of each team are in different events. While J. L. Reid '29 is able to provide an exciting race in the two-mile when pressed, the Green cannot match him in this event. In the same way Captain E. M. Wells of Dartmouth, intercollegiate champion in the 120-yard high hurdles, will not be forced to his best stride to defeat W. J. Henrich '28, the University's best high timber topper...
Wells will be running his last dual meet race against Harvard. For three years he has been a heavy point winner in the hurdles, and at present holds the world's record in the 45 and 60-yard high hurdles, is intercollegiate champion in both the 70 and 120-yard highs, and New England A. A. U. title holder in the 45 and 120-yard highs...
...close time-trial race on the Charles River Basin featured yesterday's practice for the two University crews. Coach E. J. Brown '96 turned his oarsmen downstream early in the afternoon for a limbering up pull over the mile and three quarters course preliminary to the regatta with Cornell and Tech on Saturday, and found conditions favorable enough for a handicap test...
Watts put up the beat at this point and his heavier crew began to forge ahead rapidly. They overhauled the Juniors at the Henley distance and finished the full race a length and a quarter in the van. The time was ten minutes and seven seconds for the winners and five seconds more for the Lawrence boat. A heavy head wind slowed up both crews...