Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy was caught napping at the start, got off last. It took a quarter mile at 34 strokes a minute to work into second place. Then pace-making California faltered, and Navy took the lead. Half a mile from the finish, Cornell began its sprint. Navy's Coxswain John Gartland called for a rise in the beat. It went up to 34, to 36. For the last 20 strokes, Navy hit a brisk 42 beat. They were less than half a boat length ahead at the finish when Coxswain Gartland gave "Easy all" to his crew...
Primarily, their unenviable position as "the crew to beat" is because of their superb showing in the Eastern Association's 2000-meter sprint regatta at Princeton last month. The Varsity won going away from Navy and Cornell, the number one and two boats in the Poughkeepsie event, in the time of 6:05, just off the distance record. In addition, their nearest competitor was more than seven seconds behind...
...Tall, balding Gus Hennig, chief guard for the past 37 years, smiles and says: 'It's wicked out there today.' As you walk on to the floor a messenger in full sprint about knocks you down. The great paneled room resembles a large railroad station at 5 p.m. when commuters are racing for trains. High above the trading floor are the big blackboards carrying quotations for wheat, corn and other commodities...
...Colleges, sponsors of the Second Annual Championship Regatta at Princeton next Saturday, tried yesterday to salvage something from this mess when they gave the Crimson, Cornell, and Navy top seeding. (Navy has lost to both Harvard and Yale.) But there will be seven other crews in the 2000-meter sprint on Lake Carnegie and only a couple of them can be counted completely out of the running...
Sophomore Dean Dunlavey, heralded as the savior of a sagging Varsity sprint corps, will run the 220 tomorrow against Tufts, Boston College, and Holy Cross, Coach Mikkola said yesterday...