Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the tide against them and the water unfavorably rought, the oarsmen settled down after the opening burst of speed to a beat of 30 which was maintained up to the three mile mark. From this point on, Captain John Watts '28 lifted the stroke to 35, quickening it gradually to 38, and as the shell neared the finish to a fast sprinting...
...time for the full distance grind was given out as 23 minutes and 13 seconds. The second University eight did not participate in the trial but followed the Watts crew in one of the coaching launches. Several speed boats from the Yale 'training' camp also trailed the time row in an effort to gauge the average racing pace of the Harvard eight...
...British Ambassador would go home, either peaceably or deported by the U. S. after his Government had shorn him of diplomatic rank. Home, he would face British Justice, famed for speed...
...championship. She beat a nervous Dutch girl by the name of Rollin Couquerque who weighed nearly 200 pounds and made twelve double-faults. With Francis T. Hunter for partner Miss Wills played an exhibition match in Paris against Eileen Bennet (England) and Henri Cochet. All four played at top speed, laughed when they missed, congratulated each other, made jokes, and agreed with the umpire. Bennet and Cochet...
...deadlock in the fourth period was followed by a long scoring drive from Captain. R. B. Burnett ocC, in the fifth. Then came a burst of speed from the Yale riders, who tallied twice off the mallets of O. M. Wallop and Captain F. C. Baldwin. In the final chukker, Yale tied the count and then drove home the winning goal, Wallop and Baldwin again being responsible for the scores. No substitutions were made throughout the game...