Word: sweep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fastest performance of the day was turned in by the victorious visitors' Captain Don Donahue who established an accepted 120-yard high hurdle record at 14.5 seconds, one tenth briefer than Gene Record's Harvard run of 1932. Donahue now holds a hurdle sweep having set the Crimson low hurdle mark last spring at 23.6 for the 220 yards...
Orme Wilson, at number four, was slightly off form as he had difficulty defeating Dick Baumann 6-4, 6-4. Aubrey Gould made it 5 to 0 for the Crimson when he defeated Bob Cambell 6-3, 6-1, while Howie Ezell gave the visitors a clean sweep in the singles by winning 6-0, 6-3 over Doug Simmons...
Ford King and Frank Snyder, both on the fourth Varsity boat until it was cut, are rowing on the first Eliots and Mo Gray and Chuggy Lamson, who stayed over spring vacation to practice with the Varsity squad, are seated in the seconds, showing reasons perhaps why Eliot should sweep the Charles...
After making a poor showing last week in the eliminations for the Yale race, Lowell came back yesterday in the second heat and gave Winthrop a battle all the way down the course, but the Puritans had the extra drive to stay out in front and sweep over the line a length ahead of the Bellboys. Leverett and Dunster finished third and fourth and lost the chance to compete in the finals...
Rolla Campbell, in the following 880 pulled Harvard back in the lead with a 1:58.9 performance that knocked off Dartmouth's Captain Dick Howard. The Crimson sweep of the low hurdles, next on the program, clinched the contest