Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity, its defeat of the Big Red by three lengths was a pleasant change of form from its loss to Yale May 19 in the E.A.R.C. sprint championships. Apparently the substitution of Link Boyden and Steve Hedberg for Jim Slocum and Ted Anderson gave the boat the smoothness it has occasionally been lacking this season...
Previous records, especially comparative performances at the eastern sprint championship races last weekend, show that the Crimson should win. But twice this year the oarsmen seem to have been thrown off their form by some mysterious sort of jitters, and there is no insurance that it won't happen again...
Finish line photographs developed yesterday revealed that the winner of the Friday literary regatta was the Lampoon, not the CRIMSON. The pictures showed that the 'Poon actually won by four lengths instead of losing by an alleged 23, and that the Crime's 64-stroke closing sprint was unavoidably delayed until the 'Poon had crossed the finish line...
When Yale got a half length load with about a quarter mile to go Crimson stroke Louis McCagg raised his beat to about 34, but Yale went up 50 36. Both crews finished at 37 1/2. The talent of last year's crew to sprint and still row smoothly and powerfully seemed to be missing...
...weeks ago the varsity crew rowed a relatively poor race and lost to Princeton. Last week it rowed a very fine race and beat Navy and Penn. Tomorrow the Crimson oarsman compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges sprint championships and have a chance to show whether the loss to Princeton was a fluke or indeed, as tomorrow's seedings claim, Harvard is not the crew to beat in the East...