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...first time in nine years a Crimson varsity failed to qualify for the finals of the Eastern Sprint Regatta. A matter of three feet separated the varsity shell from the third-place Princeton boat in Saturday morning's preliminaries on Washington's Potomac River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Crew Wins EARC Final; Varsity Places 4th in Preliminary | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...sixth-seeded varsity crew will row against Navy and Cornell, second and third seeded respectively, in the second heat of the Eastern Sprint Regatta this Saturday, it was announced yesterday. Top ranking Pennsylvania will race Wisconsin and Yale, listed fourth and fifth, in the first heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Crew Will Row Navy, Cornell in Second EARC Heat | 5/10/1955 | See Source »

...After leading all the way on the dead, calm waters of the Severn, Navy's varsity crew was still able to take the stroke up to a backbreaking 40 per minute to hold off Cornell's closing sprint, cross the finish line 6 ft. in front and win its 31st straight race. (Last defeat: in the I.R.A. Regatta, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Natick Nick Costes' students pleaded from the roadside: "Hurry, Mr. Costes." He obliged. At Wellesley Square he had the lead. He was running like a man who had studied the style of Czech Distance Ace Emil Zatopek-a sprint, then a stretch of jogging, then another sprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motley Marathon | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...traditional skimmers on the banks of the Schuylkill, the University of Pennsylvania's varsity eight-oared crew pulled away from Princeton and Columbia, held its lead through the last mile of the Henley (mile and five-sixteenths) course, and held on to rowing's senior sprint-racing trophy: the 76-year-old Childs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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