Word: tech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final race of the 150-pound season seems destined to wind up in a photo finish tomorrow afternoon when the eights of Harvard, Princeton, Tech, Penn, and Columbia race over the Henley distance for the Joseph Wright Cup at five o'clock in the climax of the American Henley Regatta...
...races this year the Crimson and Tech have each defeated the other by a margin of two feet, so that tomorrow's tilt will serve as a rubber match for the two. In addition, Harvard was hard pressed to beat Princeton by four feet last weekend, and at the same time Penn came within two feet of upsetting the Engineers. Only Columbia seems out of the running...
...most exciting race of the afternoon was that for the Goldthwait Cup, which brought to the starting line the undefeated lightweight Varsities of Yale and Princeton and the Crimson shell which had lost out to Tech by a scant two feet the week previous...
There is only one change in the Crimson boat which lost to Tech by two feet last weekend. Caleb Brokaw, formerly cox of the fourth heavies, has replaced Dick Sisson in the stern of Captain Seth Crocker's Crimson eight, which will again by stroked by Johnny Abbot...
...avenge the earlier defeat when the Yardlings went the mile and three-quarters last Saturday against M. I. T. The Techmen won handily, leaving Harvard second place. A lot of the gloom conjured up by the two losses was dispelled when comparison of the times revealed that Tech's Freshman wonder-crew had beaten the time of its own Varsity, and was "just plain good," as the Yardlings...