Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every fall on the third Sunday in October, they flock to Cambridge, oar in hand, awaiting their turn upon the Charles. Then early on that Sunday morning thousands will line the river banks to watch crew's most majestic autumn Regatta...
...Head of the Charles will once again bring all the beauty and power of crew to Cambridge this Sunday, as the Regatta enters its 13th year. And as the history of the event grows, so does the traffic...
Because of the large number of entries for this year's Head, some women's boats failed to make the field. There are 620 women slated to compete in this year's Regatta, the largest number of women ever entered, but Yale's and Princeton's women's teams did not make the field...
...weekend's main event, under the auspices of the Cambridge Boat Club, will occupy the river from 10 a.m. to almost 5 p.m. And to think that all this started as just a small, local regatta--it's almost unbelievable...
...wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first lay day of the races. I still don't know how to sail-except on paper...