Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the mile and five-sixteenths Henley course they sorely pressed the Middie eight but lacked Navy's powerful sprint over the final quarter mile. Penn finished a length off the pace and Harvard trailed a length and a half back. The times were...
...half-way marker the oarsmen from Annapolis had overtaken the early Penn lead and were a few feet ahead. The two crews kept this order, with the Crimson stroking at 34, less than a third of a length off the pace going into the half-mile sprint...
...Crimson at the half-way point. The varsity began its usual victory spring just past the mile marker at Smith House, where Tech stroke Valdemar Skov raised the M.I.T. stroke slightly. The Crimson pulled to within three-quarters of a length at the beginning of the final sprint as stroke Eric Oddliefson pushed the count to 37, then 39, and finally up to 41 at the finish...
...desperation Crimson sprint failed by four-tenths of a second and less than a length to catch front-running M.I.T. in Saturday's 150-pound race on the wind-swept Charles River Basin. Dartmouth finished third...
...Moines, Kansas Miler Wes Santee anchored four winning relay teams in two days of competition at the Drake Relays, helped set U.S. records in the sprint medley and distance medley. Unofficial star of the relays: ex-Southern California Shotputter Parry O'Brien, who tossed the 16-lb. weight 59 ft.9¾ in., a full 6½ in. farther than his own world record. The heave goes into the record books only as a "noteworthy performance," since the Drake Relays lacked the required three competitors in the event...