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When the teams took the floor for the second half, the Elis were given a tremendous ovation by the prom visitors and when Kernan, the Blue left guard, scored, it looked like a Yale spurt, but the great defensive play of Black and Rudofsky, aided by baskets by McLeish and Gordon and points from free tries by McLeish, checked the rally. Because of the fact that the teams played the type of game shown in the Intercollegiate League, there were few fouls called and both fives played defensive ball throughout...
...defence into confusion and during the first three quarters of the game it was generally the reliable Gilroy, the bulwark of the secondary defence who was needed to stop the Crimson rushers who again and again pierced the Tiger line. On the other hand except for one brief spurt which ended in failure, the Princeton attack seemed unable to gain ground, the passes going amiss and even the elusive Lourie seeming unable to break away for any great distances...
Then at the mile and a half mark the Freshmen tried a spurt. Their stroke went up to 33 and they applied extra power to each sweep. But Appleton was ready for them; he shot the stroke up to 32, and the yearlings stayed behind. Finally, however, with only 200 yards to go the 1924 boat staged its big spurt -- the kind that took the heart out of the Cornell Freshmen and, a week ago, defeated the Second University. Gradually they slipped up, seemingly irresistable, until their number six was opposite the stern of the first boat. Beyond that there...
...crews had rowed 100 yards further, and there are many who feel that the result might have been different from what it was. The fact remains, however, that the race was two miles and that it was won by the University. Throughout the race and particularly in their spurt, the Freshmen showed up well, but the University's work was preeminent...
...June 14.--Today was marked by excellent work on the part of all the crews. The first University crew went over the four-mile course paddling with the stroke never above thirty except for the final spurt. About every half-mile the stroke was alternated, being kept down to twenty-six for the first half-mile, then being raised to twenty-nine and so on. The crew was paced for the entire distance by the Crimson seconds, who kept even with the first boat, with a stroke about two points higher. The weather conditions were rather unfavorable, for although there...