Word: length
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday race that it could have easily placed third in the record shattering varsity race. As it was, the '52 oarsmen's 8:54, which set a record for freshman rowing on the Charles, was more than sufficient to beat MIT, their perennial rival by more than a length and a half...
More than a length behind Tech, Navy eased past the MIT boathouse with Pennsylvania a bare half length behind it. Columbia drifted across the finish line five lengths and 40 seconds later...
Princeton's powerful 150-lb crew was good enough Saturday to beat Harvard by over a length on Lake Carnegie and thereby lift the Goldthwait Cup out of the Crimson trophy case for the first time since 1937. Yale was the third entrant in the twenty-fourth annual Big Three Championship race...
Rowing at a 36 stroke, the Crimson closed the gap to less than a length, but a late counter-sprint by Princeton regained the margin. At the finish Yale was four lengths back...
...secondary events, however, Harvard's crews remained undefeated. The freshman 150's followed up their two wins over MIT with a three-length win over the Elis with Princeton trailing behind in third by five lengths. The Crimson junior varsity edged out Princeton by a length and Yale by six more...