Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division one, Harvard swept the week-long championships in Providence late in June. Although its winning margin lessened towards the end of the week, the Crimson led consistently all week. Saltonstall, winning a very tight last race, became high point skipper for the B division and the whole regatta...
...Harvard row-row-row its boats up the Thames that the undefeated heavyweight varsity swamped the Thames Rowing Club, and the lightweights beat London University, to bring off the first sweep of both major events by a U.S. challenger in the history of the 120-year-old Henley Royal Regatta. ¶ The Boston Red Sox were last in the American League race, and to Owner Tom Yawkey the next move was obvious. Out went Manager Mike ("Pinky") Higgins, 50. In came Billy Jurges, 51, the old National League shortstop (Chicago, New York), who declared an equally obvious formula for pulling...
...Harvard varsity boats celebrated the Fourth of July by winning the championship of international rowing, the Henley regatta. The heavyweights won the coveted Grand Challenge Cup, rowing's greatest honor, while the lightweight crew successfully defended the Thames Challenge...
...years of the regatta's history, no American school had previously captured both cups simultaneously. Both Crimson crews triumphed by decisive margins of two and three-quarter lengths in their final races of the elimination-style regatta, and were never sorely pressed in the four-day competition...
...Crimson's varsity heavyweight eight meets the London Rowing Club in the first round of eliminations for the Grand Challenge Cup, the principle event of the regatta...