Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second eight, now a length slower than the first will race this morning. Coolidge, stressing the impossibility of making any close prediction about a Freshman race, does feel that the lightweights can hope for "a good showing...
This is Coolidge's first year as coach of the lightweights. Graduating from Harvard last spring he distinguished himself by winning the Darcy Cup race for the University senior singles sculls championship...
...Freshman heavies, though also hindered by a late start, have shown great potential. On Tuesday, in a mile and three quarters race against the varsity and JV boats, the first Freshman boat finished only a length behind...
Tuesday's time was the first promising one for the first eight, but last year's undefeated Freshmen did not surpass it until two weeks later in the spring. Coach Bill Leavitt feels that a winning boat must be able to finish a race with a forty stroke per minute cadence. In Tuesday's race the first eight finished at a 34, and had they been able to push up the stroke they could have beaten...
...crew racing season opens this afternoon with what could prove to be the year's most exciting race on the Charles River as the lightweights face Cornell and M.I.T. Last year the Big Red put on a tremendous finishing sprint that failed by only inches from spoiling the varsity's undefeated season...