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...laps and turned over a 15-yard lead to Goodwin when he took the baton. For the first lap Goodwin increased his lead to 20 yards, but John of the Ithaca team speeded up in the second and third laps and cut the lead to five yards. A spurt in the final lap brought him abreast of Goodwin at the take-off line...
...game started with a spurt by the Crimson forwards which ended with a goal from a scrimmage. Later J. Larocque netted a long shot from the side of the rink. G. Owen, as usual, played an excellent all-around game, and he with J. C. Bancroft kept the schoolboy players from threatening the Crimson goal. A. H. Ladd and R. F. Thayer both played a consistently good offensive game, and for the visitors Captain Simpson and Powell starred...
...picked to win, on the last stretch and broke the tape two feet ahead of his opponent. O'Connell at the start ran in fourth place but at the half-way mark passed McDermott of Cornell and Bartels of Johns Hopkins into second place; and except for a premature spurt by O'Brien of Yale on the last lap, it was between the Crimson miler and Crawford...
...second place in the 220-yard dash. In these dashes W. C. Haymond, Pennsylvania, showed excellent form and won two firsts. J. D. Hutchinson '19 in the two-mile run finished in the fourth place, nearly passing the third man, S. W. Sedgwick of Michigan, in a final spurt. C. G. Krogness '21 tied for fourth place in the high-jump (which was won by R. W. Landon, Yale), with J. A. Ramsay of Cornell, clearing 5 feet, 9 inches. H. C. Flower '19 found stiff competition in the broad jump against Johnson of Michigan and Le Gendre of Georgetown...
...latter crew, maintaining a high stroke, gained steadily on the Sophomores throughout the first mile, while the Senior eight, after a short brush with 1921, dropped well to the rear. As the boats neared Harvard Bridge the leaders were a length to the good. Both coxswains called for a spurt, and the Juniors added a half length to their advantage before running into the rough water of the Basin. From that moment until the final sprint both, strokes lowered their cadence considerably and, matching spurt for spurt, held their relative positions until the finish line was crossed...