Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stork Sanford's Big Red, besides losing to the Crimson at Princeton, have also lost to both Yale and the Tigers in the sprint in the Carnegie Cup race the week before, but only three-quarters of a length separated all three boats. Prior to that race the low-stroking Ithaca crew had turned in easy victories over B.U., Columbia, and Syracuse twice...
...Massachusetts Avenue bridge up to the mile mark, Navy had a fairly comfortable two-length lead, with Penn and Harvard, never more than half a length apart, fighting it out for second. So they finished, with Navy under wraps (a 36 beat), and Penn nipping Harvard's sprint finish (38) by two feet. Navy's time for the mile and three-quarters: 8:51.4, three-seconds off the course record...
...such luck befell the swift Crimson eight which, sleepless from a night of meticulous proofreading, after the nine tussle was forced to row the Olympic half-mile sprint course on a wind-whipped Charles against a tenman 'Poon shell, powered by a small auxiliary marine engine imported from Japan...
Crimson oarsmen spent the weekend achieving the dubious distinction of placing in more E.A.R.C. races than any of the other runner-ups to Navy, which gained the Eastern sprint championship indisputably by winning all its events...
Pete Dow got a second in the 100 yard dash, and Charlie Durakis finished fifth in the high hurdles. The sprint relay team finished fourth, mostly on the strength of a fine anchor leg by Dow. The remaining Crimson points were scored by Phil Pratt with a fourth in the discus and by Bob Mello, who tied for third in the pole vault...