Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor problem. To the visiting Russian rowers, it was a singular embarrassment. They could hardly disapprove of such a proletarian maneuver, but there they stood on the shore with their sweeps in their hands, and there were their shells on the deck of the strikebound Soviet freighter Strelna. The regatta at Henley, where they had swept the river only the year before, was only a week away. How could they practice? They were up the Thames, as it were, with a useless set of paddles...
...round into condition. Their stroke lengthened with power. The rhythm that puts a long, swift run on the boat became second nature. Last week, as a hot (90°), breathless haze flattened the dead waters of New York's Onondaga Lake for the 53rd Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, Cornell was ready...
...their most recent competition, the Crimson crews finished third behind Cornell and Penn in the Eastern Sprint Regatta, thanks to a victory in the freshman race. The '58 boat turned in the fastest freshman clocking in the EARC's three-year history on the Potomac. In the other divisions, however, the jayvees were edged out by Yale for second place, and the varsity was eliminated in the preliminaries for the first time in nine years...
Junior Bernard Flynn overcame a floating inner tube and four other singles oarsmen yesterday afternoon to win the University Singles Championship on the Charles River. He was one of six victors in the finals of the 1955 University Sculling Regatta held over the past two days...
...only unscathed eight now rowing out of Newell--more than atoned for this defat, however. The powerful Yardling easily outdistanced highly-rated Cornell over the 2,000-meter course. In their open-water victory, they rowed the fastest clocking recorded by a freshman crew in the three years the regatta has been held on the Potomac. The winning time...