Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday's tournament the scores really zoomed The Easterns are scored by stroke play rather than by hole-by, hole match play. Each team enters seven golfers who play 36 holes. The low five scores are added up, and the team with the lowest combined total wins...
...Crimson, keeping their stroke at about a 34, eased away to leave the other crews two and a half lengths behind at the finish line. Harvard's time...
...Charles, the varsity lightweights almost immediately overcame a two-seat Princeton lead and slowly pulled away from the Tigers. As the Princeton cox frantically urged his crew on, trying to narrow Harvard's two length lead in the last quarter mile, the Crimson appeared almost unconcerned, keeping the stroke low, and clinging stubbornly to their smoothly earned lead...
Princeton upset Harvard's junior varsity in the most exciting race on the Charles Saturday afternoon. The Tigers led the entire way, establishing almost a length over the Crimson in the last 30 strokes of the race. But as coxswain Al Bartlett called the stroke up to a 39. Harvard surged forward and, seat by seat, pulled so close that it was several minutes before the judges decided that Princeton had won by a margin of four-tenths of a second. Yale crossed the finish line eight length behind...
...Irishman who became president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital...