Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Color will be contributed to the occasion by a Gloucester dory regatta on the River. The terms of this contest have not yet been cleared up but it is supposed that the opposing crews will row in the same direction starting from the Weeks Memorial Bridge. Robert Leader Lampoon has been engaged as superficial transom and slide greaser in charge of coaching operations. "Remain long in the water and don't shoot" are the warning words of this mentor...
Although the consent of Cornell has not yet been procured to allow Tech to enter the Harvard-Cornell race on Saturday, due to the postponement of the races last Saturday, it is expected that Cornell will consent to a triangular regatta since there seems to be no other convenient way to arrange for the Crimson to match up with her downstream rivals...
Rowing has heretofore always stopped a Tech in the middle of May, so that unless the oarsmen prevail on the authorities to allaw them to enter the Poughkeepsie regatta, it is doubtful if they would put off their studies to row Harvard...
Last year Coach Wray's men were defeated by Harvard in a triangular regatta with Tech over the Charles River Basin course but the race two weeks from tomorrow will be a dual affair. Cornell did not show up very well at the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June although the crew was leading the field at the mile mark. A return to a period of championship crews resembling the great eights of Coach Courtney's long regime is hailed by the followers of the oarsmen from Lake Cayuga...
...also learned that Hulburt Johnston '29, University crew manager, had been elected president of the association. He, together with Mr. Parker Hamilton, vice-president, and Mr. Lothrop Withington, secretary-treasurer of the association will handle all the details of the regatta...