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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other relay event in which Harvard placed was the sprint medley in which a team composed of G. A. Tupper '29, T. F. Mason '30, V. L. Hennessy '30, and David Cobb '31, came in fourth. New York University, the winner in this race, set up an astonishing record of 3 minutes, 28 and 1-5 seconds, breaking the previous mark by six seconds. The event is run in four legs of 440, 330, 330, and 880 yards respectively. The running of Tupper who covered the quarter in 49 and 3-5 seconds featured from the Harvard angle...
...Engineers are reported to be in the pink of condition and will follow their custom of taking a long starting sprint. Although last week's race with the Navy was rowed over a Henley course both crews are prepared to inaugurate the new two mile course recently laid out in the Charles River Basin...
Tomorrow's program includes a 150 pound crew race over the two mile course at 4 o'clock, a Jayvee race at 4.30 o'clock and the University race at 5 o'clock. The Tech second crew did not fare well against the Navy but it has been improving steadily during the past few days...
...weeks from tomorrow Harvard will have its second race of the season when it races over the Charles River Basin course with Cornell, which promises to be better than the eight turned out from Ithaca in recent years. The resemblance of the old Courtney swing is evident in the 1929 eight which has easily triumphed over the Jayvee outfit in all of this season's rows. Reports from Ithaca warn that Cornell is a crew to be watched...
Last year Coach Wray's men were defeated by Harvard in a triangular regatta with Tech over the Charles River Basin course but the race two weeks from tomorrow will be a dual affair. Cornell did not show up very well at the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June although the crew was leading the field at the mile mark. A return to a period of championship crews resembling the great eights of Coach Courtney's long regime is hailed by the followers of the oarsmen from Lake Cayuga...