Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college sports which today arouse the greatest interest are undoubtedly football and rowing, and as during the last five years Harvard has won no football games and only one race at New London, there seems to have arisen a feeling that Harvard has for a long time more or less filled the role of athletic doormat for Yale teams in all forms of sport...
Although the track "H" is awarded to point-winners in the Harvard-Yale cross country meet and to relay race winners, these two sports have been included with the minor sports in summarizing the results...
Three times prior to 1908, Harvard and Yale had won six times consecutively, Harvard in 1866-1871, and Yale in 1892-1898 and in 1900-1905. There was no race...
...Harvard crews from 1908 to 1915, inclusive, were coached by James Wray, and won six of the eight races rowed, the 1908 race being the one in which the Yale stroke was taken into the launch at the three-mile mark and the crew finished with seven men in the shell...
During the last 20 years, therefore, Harvard and Yale have rowed 19 races, including a two-mile race on the Housatonic River in 1918. There was no race in 1917. During this period each university won a series of six consecutive races and of the total number rowed Harvard won ten and Yale nine...