Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept ballplayer, Hadden modeled his batting style and his energetic walking style after his hero, and affected a side-of-the-mouth Brooklyn accent that he thought suitable for ballplayers. Elected editor of the weekly Record at Hotchkiss School, he wistfully wrote his mother: "I'd rather get one 'H' [in baseball] than be editor of all the papers in the world...
...fast was the time of the freshman crew in its Saturday race that it could have easily placed third in the record shattering varsity race. As it was, the '52 oarsmen's 8:54, which set a record for freshman rowing on the Charles, was more than sufficient to beat MIT, their perennial rival by more than a length and a half...
With this victory the ruggers closed their season boasting a record of five wins, one loss, and four ties. However, the Big Three title for this season will never be decided because Harvard and Yale are not scheduled to play. Both have beaten Princeton...
...winning time not only clipped seconds off the old upstream record set by Spike Chase's crew in 1941, but it also demolished a 17-year-old downstream record established over a slightly shorter course. Which means, in short, that the Crimson has an even more excellent crew than usual this year, a crew which must be considered the overwhelming favorite to retain the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges 2,000 meter sprint championships at Syracuse this Saturday...
Harvard's varsity crow passed its Generals handily Saturday on the Charles by defeating four top Eastern crews and setting a new course record of 8:48.4 in the precess. This leaves the Bolles-tutored outfit with an excellent chance of coming through the Divisionals at Syracuse next week unscarred, and going on to finish out the season with a perfect record...