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M.I.T. is favored to win the Providence regatta today and tomorrow at the Edge-wood Yacht Club, although Brown and Yale will offer stiff competition, and Harvard, Coast Guard, Rhode Island State, and Boston College are not far behind. Williams and Northeastern are expected to trail the field. The winner will go to California in June for the national title races...
While the Varsity and JV 150 crews take the day off from competition, the Yardling 50s will meet Tabor and Browne and Nichols at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon on a three-way regatta. The race will be an informal one. According to Coach Bert Haines, it will serve chiefly as a time-up before the Yale and Princeton meet next week...
Bolles added that a 12-boat regatta, largest over held in the five-year history of the sprint championship race, also presented starting difficulties. "A slight difference in the starting of so short a sprint (2000 meters) could appreciably affect the race's outcome," he said...
...following colleges have entered varsity crews in next Saturday's three-event regatta: Boston University, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, M.I.T., Navy, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse, Wisconsin, and Yale...
Since Wisconsin won the opening regatta in 1946, Harvard has captured three successive varsity sprint titles. Last year at Syracuse the junior varsity and freshman boats also won, giving the Crimson the first clean sweep made by any college...