Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squat Russell Tongay could hardly wait to make a swimmer out of his first-born son. As a high-school boy in St. Louis, barrel-chested Russ was a sprint swimmer himself, and earned letters in almost every other sport. But fame & fortune eluded him. He became a coach at municipal pools and summer camps, was anonymously enduring World War II as a Coast Guard pharmacist's mate at Miami when Russell Jr. was born...
...Yardlings and the Big Red had traded the lead for most of the race, but in the last sprint, Cornell, a big crew for a freshman eight, overtook Coach Bill Leavitt's shell. In this race, the most exciting of the day, the Crimson also surprised the experts, as it had been seeded only third...
...final sprint the varsity continued to close, upping its stroke to a 38, 39, and finally a 41, while Navy matched the Crimson's beat, and though losing ground to Harvard, crossed the line still 20 feet ahead...
Wisconsin and Cornell were neck and neck in the sprint, but the Badgers just overtook the Big Red to finish third. Columbia and Penn were fifth and sixth...
...previously undefeated Crimson freshman shell sagged late in its extended sprint to catch front-running Princeton, to place third, a length and a quarter behind Cornell. Dartmouth was nearly three lengths off the pace...