Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although O'Neil's remarkable performance in the half-mile was the feature of the afternoon, the mile and quarter-mile were also run in fast time. Allen of Andover, coming from the rear with a wonderful spurt in the last 100 yards, captured the quarter by two yards in 51 and three-fifths seconds...
Crew C again demonstrated a fair margin over the Juniors in a race over the Henley yesterday, winning by one and a half lengths. It was steady rowing, combined with a timely spurt at the finish, that gave the third eight the advantage. Starting off about even, the two shells went along on even terms for a few hundred yards, but with Crew C creeping steadily to the fore and at the mile mark they were but half a length apart. Here Bradford raised the stroke, however, and added another length between Harvard bridge and the Henley flags...
Once in this position, the leaders had little trouble in keeping their advantage and the two shells see-sawed down the course, spurt answering spurt with no appreciable change in the relative positions. As Harvard bridge loomed ahead the seconds started a lrive that carried them almost abreast their opponents, but crew C was equal to the occasion, answered the challenge with a still higher stroke, and crossed the line 50 feet to the good...
...battle all the way down the remainder of the course between the first and third crews, the rival strokes, Brown and Amory, keeping their shells pretty well abreast of each other. Spurt matched spurt for the last couple of hundred yards, but the third eight, rowing only seven-eighths of a mile, had the advantage of endurance and pulled out at the finish a scant quarter length ahead. The Junior eight finished three lengths behind...
...first game the Crimson men were overwhelmingly victorious by the score of 28-3, recent scores indicate that the Engineers have improved considerably. They were defeated by the Tufts yearlings in a close contest only 22-18, while the Crimson barely won from the same team by a final spurt...