Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then dropped it immediately to a 31 1/2, which it kept throughout the body of the race. By the midpoint in the course the Crimson had a lead of a length and a half on both the Middles and the Quakers and increased it gradually. In the closing sprint Navy pulled a half length ahead of Penn and finished second to the Crimson in the time of 6:45. Penn's time...
Harvard never needed to put on a final sprint and finished at 31 1/2. It was without doubt the Crimson's best race of the year, even though it used a borrowed shell. "We finally lived up to our time trials," Bolles said after the race. All the crews bucked a head wind...
...Crimson, after dropping behind at the start, caught up on Navy at the half mile, and then put on a power ten to go from a half length behind Penn to first place. From then on, the Harvard second boat coasted in at a 31, again with no sprint. The winning time...
...from two lengths behind Harvard to win by four feet over the Crimson. Harvard jumped to an early lead and seemed to be a cinch to win, but in the last half mile the Crimson could'nt raise the stroke from a 32, and Yale put on a furious sprint...
...Tigers also won the freshman heavy race, with Harvard second and Tech last. In the J.V. race, the Crimson won easily over Princeton, but Tech never finished after catching a crab in the final sprint. Three Crimson crews swept the 150 regatta held prior to the heavy races, beating Tech and Tabor Academy...