Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reds. The Charles River was too rough last fortnight for red-jerseyed Harvard oarsmen to row red-jerseyed M. I. T. men. So last week the M. I. T. men joined a red-jerseyed Cornell crew in outrowing Harvard. Cornell, unhurried, finished first. Harvard, however, won the junior varsity race when Cornellian Bate, No. 6, snapped...
...Villanova aggregation has found the sailing pretty rough so far this spring, losing well over half of its contests; but its lineup has seven veterans including pitcher Hensil who played on the 1928 nine which trounced Harvard by a decisive 8 to 0 score. The left-handed Wildcat hurler let the last year's Crimson outfit down with six hits and fanned nine, facts which tend to show that today's contest may yet be a ball game worth seeing...
...yesterday's race the eights went over the old course and continued to row a short distance past the West Boston bridge at the end of the stretch with a half length of open water showing between the shells. With rough conditions prevailing the beat was forced down in the last half mile of rowing and the boats finished the trial, with several inches of water sloshing beneath the slides...
Saturday's races revealed the lack of endurance of both University crews occasioned by constant rough water in the Basin which greatly reduced the number of long, hard rows. As a result Coach Brown is now starting his men in earnest on the long grind in preparation for June...
...Ithacans, as yet untried, are an unknown quantity, and the Crimson can base no hopes for victory on its race of a few days ago, for the Engineers were completely disconcerted by the rough water...