Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called the "Olympic distance" and therein lies the motive for extraneous, post-season speculation. The fasts are obvious; there is a 2,000 meter crew race in the Olympics; a competitive nation by nature, the United States would like to win it; the United States will send its best sprint-crew...
Stroke-our Frank Cunningham, who pulled the crew to its major sprint victories at Princeton and Seattle and earned an all-star rating by a Seattle sportswriter, will have graduated both from the College and his little seat facing the coxswain. Gone too will be Captain Bob Stone, who was at four, and Stu Clark, at two. Significantly, from the balanced-boat angle, all three are starboard oarsmen...
When the New York sportswriters reported the results of the Eastern Intercollegiate sprint regatta at Princeton six weeks ago, they led their stories with a quote from Coach Tom Bolles, "This is she best crew I have ever coached at Harvard...
...splashed across the finish line at the Lake Washington Regatta in the astounding, record-breaking time of 5 minutes 49 seconds. The best time up to then for a placid surface was 13 seconds slower, and last Saturday Bolles was reliably reported to say that "this is the best sprint crew I ever coached...
...mile defeat on Lake Ithaca by Cornell, whom the Crimson downed twice at the 2000 meter distance, somewhat justifies Bolles' qualification "sprint" in his latest "best crew" quote. The length-and-a-half Varsity triumph against Yale on the Thames was nice to behold but again the crew did not look as impressive as they did at the Princeton regatta for the Olympic sprint distance...