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...work of the crews marked the first day of the fall regatta. The preliminary races for the Filley Cup and the Slocum Trophy were rowed against a head wind over the half-mile stretch upstream. The fifth Eliot crew defeated the fifth Thayer in an interesting race by a scant length. The race between the three third dormitory crews was close and exciting, the Gore crew leading the Standish to the finish line by 3-4 of a length, with the Smith crew coming in a close third. The orders...
Those who witnessed the finals of the eighth annual Winter Carnival on the board track on Soldiers Field yesterday, afternoon were spectators of an unusually exciting battle, between 1917 and 1915. In the closest race in years, the Juniors won the interclass relay championship from the Freshmen by a scant foot. At the start, R. W. Stanley '17 gained a fair lead over J. B. Camp '15 aided by his opponent's stumble, but by consistent work the Juniors made up lost ground until J. C. Rock '15 finally passed J. W. Feeney '17. The Juniors held the lead...
Then came the Princeton contest, in which the line seemed to have lost all the ground that it had won, and in which victory was registered only through the scant margin of one drop-kick. The Princeton attack punctured the forwards so frequently that it was only the wonderful work of the secondary defense, and of Bradlee in particular, that staved off dangerous gains. Not until the team was almost in the shadow of its own goal did the line show determination enough to hold the Tigers to even terms...
Little attention was paid this contest by the general public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 47,000 spectators today...
Work in the morning consisted of two fast half-miles in one of which the Freshman eight raced the University and was defeated by a scant length. The three four-oared crews were also given a brush over a mile course...