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...Charles. Under-stroking Yale consistently, the Big Red showed a strong middle race with good spacing and power, passing the Elis for about a half length at mid-race. However, the men from Ithaca were weak at the start and were outdone by a withering forty sprint from the Blue at the finish. There is reason to believe that the Crimson is capable of duplicating the Yale strong start and finish race...
...half lengths ahead of the Bellboy seconds, the Eliot Jayvees crossed in 8:21. Kirkland and Winthrop fought it out in an uneven sprint at the finish, the Puritans failing to nip their rivals in time and crossing in a dead heat for third place...
Anchored by flashy Jim Pender, who won both the Century and the furlong hurdle events, Cornell had clearly won the sprint relay. Don Donahue and George Kroupa of Penn had finished in a blanket drive for second place, and the officials had tentatively awarded the latter the palm...
...choppier course, in a race preceding, the Jayvees failed to click when they met their first defeat of the year three-quarters of a length behind Navy, as Penn and Columbia followed in that order. It was a sluggish Crimson boat that crossed the finish line with a late sprint which never neared the high beat of the week before...
...Freshmen had crashed through with a walk-away race just before them, which netted the Yardlings a three-length win without a sprint, while the Navy plebes, a Columbia, and an illstarred Penn boat followed in that order...