Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the 2000 meter course is a short wind sprint compared to the annual four mile pre-war Poughkeepsie Regatta, it has been heralded as the big event of the crew season inasmuch as the Hudson River outing will not be held this year...
Wisconsin's fresh water sailors from the deep west scored the rowing upset of the season as they chalked up a remarkable time of 9:12 4-5 to capture the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Saturday over a 1 3/4 mile course on the Severn...
...Varsity shell was definitely in the race for the first mile, and for the next 1/4 mile it seemed as though they might still be in it. But after that the boys just ran out of gas. The other boats didn't put on much of an extra sprint; we slowed down...
...expected the Princeton crew, decisively beaten by Penn and Rutgers the week before, to come as near as it did to stealing the Crimson's three-foot lead for second place. At the same time that the Varsity's final sprint eked out its margin over the Tigers, it was narrowing the quarter-length of open water held by the Big Red at the end. M.I.T.'s last minute crab threw it more than 16 seconds behind the Harvard time...
...spite of the loss of Doug Pirnie, ace sprint man, who pulled a muscle in his leg shortly before the meet, the track team took fourteen out of fifteen firsts o swamp Tufts and Connecticut in its opening meet of the season held last Saturday at Soldiers Field. The final score was Harvard 120, Tufts 27 1/2; and Connecticut...