Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University's 14, the Crimson's opponents securing eight of their points in the relay. This event proved to be the most spectacular race ever witnessed in the Rutegrs pool, the home team snatching their victory by one tenth of a second, in the face of a splendid spurt by A. H. Brackett '22, the Crimson anchor man. At Annapolis, the Navy swimmers registered an easy victory over the University, breaking the intercollegiate record in the 160-yard relay by covering the distance in 1 min., 19 sec. Notwithstanding the fact that L. B. Davis '20 took first place...
...outdistanced by Damon of Amherst. In the one hundred yard dash, although Brackett had entirely outclassed the other entries in the first heat, he was unable to recover from Biddell, the Tech star, the lead which the latter seized in the first few yards of the race. A splendid spurt in the last lap brought Brackett up to the engineer's shoulder, but failed to win him the race...
...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...
McCarthy went to the front in his spurt with Abrew and continued to increase his lead in the second, third and fourth laps. Abrew, however, commenced a spurt in the fifth lap that carried him past McCarthy and gained a lead of 20 yards for Cornell, when Dickinson took over the race...
...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...