Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most thrilling moment--when does it come? Many have been the sporting situations in fiction and in fact which have been pictured to bring home this sensation, but to those who have ever seen the start of a varsity race in the annual Intercollegiate Regatta at Poughkeepsie there can be no other most thrilling moment. It's there, and it's got everything that goes to give any fun excitement and gooseflesh...
During the first 13 years of the Poughkeepsie Regatta, victory was an upstate New York monopoly, for when Cornell did not win, Syracuse did. In the last three races prior to the three-year lapse during the war, Columbia, Cornell, and Syracuse were the respective winners. When competition was resumed in 1920, Syracuse again won. It was not until two decades after the first race that Navy, a natural for the rowing sport, was able to break the ice. Pennsylvania, the fifth member of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, has never crossed the line a winner...
From a total of over 40 men entered in the semi-finals of the annual spring sculling regatta yesterday, five men have qualified for participation in the finals to be held on Friday...
With the Brooks House crew favored because of its showing in the trial heats Kirkland, Lowell, Brooks and Winthrop race today over the Henley course at 5 o'clock. The winner of today's regatta will meet the winning crew from the Yale colleges...
...christened only last week, will have its best time of 9--22 3-5 seriously challenged when four high-powered rowing colleges put everything they have over the course one after another. Opportunity to see all gradations of rowing will be offered since in the early afternoon a schoolboy regatta will be held over the three quarter mile course off Magazine beach, while at 2 o'clock the House crews, admittedly unfinished, but making up in spirit of pure amateurism what they lack in smoothness, will splash over the Henley course for the honor of racing Yale...