Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory sends the sailing team to the nationals for the first time in several years, and came as a complete surprise. To win the championships, the varsity defeated heavily-favored teams from M.I.T. and B.U. in an exciting battle that was not decided until the last race of the two-day regatta...
Robbins and Saltonstall both took thirds in the eighth race, and M.I.T. stayed even with a win in the A division and a fifth in division B. As the teams lined up for the final race of the regatta, M.I.T., B.U., and the varsity all had a chance for the title...
...strong second in the early going, Tomy Lee took the lead in the backstretch but dropped back to second behind Sword Dancer at the mile mark. Admitted Jockey Willie Shoemaker: "I thought we were through. I hollered to Willie Boland (on Sword Dancer), 'I hope you win it.'" But Tomy Lee shrugged off his breeding, roared back in the last dozen strides to win by a nose. He was the first foreign-born horse to win the derby since 1917. His archenemy, First Landing, was a well-beaten third...
...almost from the start, until in the final lap, when Eli Jim Wade passed Benjamin, only to be caught again 150 yards from the tape by both Benjamin and Fitzgerald. It semed as if the Yale gamble had failed, when Slowik came from no-where in the stretch to win by two yards in the meet record time...
Carl Pescosolido took the javelin for the varsity, and Crimson high jumper John deKiewiet won in his specialty. The Crimson's Tom Blodgett cleared 13 ft., 4 in., in his best ever, to win the pole vault. Hank Abbot broke up a one-two Yale sweep in the shot with a 50 ft., 7 3/4 in. heave