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...mile. Spengler grabbed a short lead on the second lap of the two mile, with Brokaw shadowing him all the way and a B. C. runner just a stride further back. Brokaw held onto second place, and the final lap saw the two Crimson distance men sprint home one step apart...
...Crimson seemed confused by the Lion sprint-draw style offense. Its secondary had problems with the Jackson-Parks combination through the air, and let one play that should have been stopped at line of scrimmage break for a 32-yard touchdown...
First, with the exception of such Western crews as California, Stanford and Washington, the Syracuse regatta is almost an exact duplicate of the Eastern Sprint event. The same EARC boats that Harvard has defeated at Worcester for the past seven years, including Penn, enter the I. R. A., and the Crimson feels that it is unnecessary to have to prove its superiority again if there is something more attractive to do on the same...
More importantly, the I. R. A. is hardly a national championship event, regardless of what the N. C. A. A. feels. It only allows member colleges to enter, and restricts entrance to heavyweight eights. Thus, the Harvard varsity lightweight boat which roared through its season unbeaten, won the Sprint title by more than two lengths, and voted to apply to the varsity race at the I. R. A. was turned down, since by the I. R. A. standards, it was not the top-ranking shell at its college...
Evan's approach, which is shared by the vast majority of Harvard oarsmen, goes a long way in explaining why the Crimson decided not to go to Henley this summer for a match race with Penn, and why it refused to race Western Sprint champion UCLA this month, even though the Bruins were willing to come to Cambridge for the race after passing...