Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost their advantage, regained a little of it, only to fall behind by about a half-deck length with only a hundred years remaining. Curwen's closing sprint failed by inches to catch the victorious Wagner, who stroked the jayvees most of last spring. When the two hit the finish line Wagner's oars were last in the water, and that added impetus was a winning margin...
Wilson's boatload nipped the surging Anderson shell by another fractional margin, and Bristol Hall's heavy, crossing fifth, edged out the first fifty to finish, stroked by Johnny Abbot, who had waged a nip and tuck battle down the course with Bobby Lincoln until a crab put his fifty out of the competition...
...That's a horse of a different color," he replied. "I pick up quite a bit of inside dope in my line, and I predict a photo finish. So long. I've got to go see a man about the north end of a south bound Percheron." Hu Flung Huey's Big Four Roosevelt over Willkie Saltonstall over Dever Harvard over Yale Babson over my dead body
Winthrop with three wins, one loss and one tie can finish in undisputed first place only if the boys from the House "with the very small tower and no bells at all" drop both of their remaining games. If the Gold Coasters win over either Dunster or Eliot they will at least a tie for the title. Neither of these teams has been highly successful...
...Another garrison finish: at Baker Field, after Columbia and Syracuse had struggled scorelessly for more than 59 minutes, Syracuse's 145-pound Sophomore Leland Morris drop-kicked a field goal in the last 40 seconds, upset Columbia...