Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat Hawley. They nearly succeed. A pipe is shot from the mouth of a bird-watching master, the dorm-to-chapel sprint record is broken, and the "discriminatory practices" of the old against the young in the matters of sex and summer are defeated. As the two cronies weasel their way to Yale and through the R.C.A.F., there emerges a portrait of that very special generation, not lost but somehow mislaid between...
Twice Zwirner came from behind to defeat Pete Reider by comparatively large margins on his tremendous finishing sprint...
Extra Weight. Oxford's early sprint earned a brief lead. Carnegie's boatmen slowly dropped back. Their No. 5 oar, Peter Barnard, biggest man in the boat, had collapsed. Carrying his dead weight was too much to ask of any style. At the end of the four-mile 374-yd. race, Cambridge was two lengths in front...
...before. This time Dyer got an excellent start, and the smooth-stroking senior led all the way to win by a body length in the meet-record time of 49.4. Keiter, who was clocked in 50.8, finished half a length ahead of Yale's fading sprint star, Rex Aubrey...
...modified version also proved too strong for the Crimson, despite the services of Dyer. The Yale swimmers had built a lead of nearly two body lengths by the time Dyer took off on the anchor leg. In spite of a sprint that brought him within a quarter of a length of Anderson, Dyer faded slightly on the last lap and the Elis were home safe...