Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard runner, jumped into the lead in the first twenty yards with Kauffman of Pennsylvania at his heels. For 250 yards he led by one yard but Kauffman finally passed him and gave Lockwood, his team-mate, a two yard lead over E. A. Teschner '17. By a terrific spurt Teschner passed Lockwood, but was forced to give way in the final stretch, and Lippincott, the Pennsylvania captain, was given a slight lead over W. Willcox, Jr., '17, Harvard's third man, and barely maintained his advantage. In the last relay W. J. Bingham '16 made a game fight...
...four-mile race was held yesterday between the first and second crews. The second crew was given three lengths at the start. The first crew closed up the distance by a spurt at the Anderson bridge, gained three lengths on the stretch to Harvard bridge and finished with this lead in spite of a good spurt by the second...
...line-up. The offensive department of the eleven is strong; the backfield being fast and possessing power and drive. Gordon has showed much ability of late in drop-kicking and is a big asset to the scoring power of the machine. The coaches are much pleased by the spurt which the playing of the team has suddenly taken within the past two weeks, thereby wiping out to a considerable extent the rather poor showing the eleven made in New York against Cornell...
...three mile mark, Yale led by just a length. For only a few seconds, however, was this advantage maintained. Harvard started a wonderful spurt, each sweep bringing the two prows a little closer together, until at last they were even. An instant later, Harvard showed slightly ahead, until at the three and a half-mile flag the boat was some ten feet to the good...
With perhaps an eighth of a mile left, Harvard still had a few feet on her opponents. Then Appleton instituted his final spurt, bringing the two crews even again. One crew would spring ahead slightly when it was pulling and the other recovering for a new catch. In this fashion, they raced to the finish. As it happened, Yale was pulling and Harvard recovering when the line was crossed. By so fine a margin was the victory determined. This race, captured by a single stroke, is likely to remain the most remarkable in the history of the two universities...