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...ahead by inches. But Amory's chief bid for victory was still to come. In the shadow of the bridge he put on a spurt and when the two eights appeared on the other side the seconds were a quarter of a length in the lead and widening the margin...
Meanwhile Brown had been holding his crew to a slightly lower stroke, and when the seconds dropped the beat after their spurt, the first eight began to creep up again. All the way down the lower Basin the two crews held their own with a slight margin favoring the seconds. A hundred yards from the finish only a few feet separated the crews as the two coxswains called for the final spurts. The thirds finished about four lengths behind...
Three days later Crimson track prospects received a momentary setback when both of the three University relay teams entered in the B. A. A. games at the Arena were defeated. The Eli victory in the two-mile relay was won by a margin of 50 yards, while M. I. T.'s one-mile combination triumphed by 40. In this same meet the Eli Freshmen outran the University yearlings. It was a defeat all around for the Crimson...
...Pennsylvania, Princeton, Penn State and Yale. This showing by the University was not encouraging; in fact it seemd to point to retrogradation rather than progress. For only three weeks before the Crimson had won over Dartmouth in the triangular meet; and the Green had a 16 1-2 point margin over Coach Bingham's men at the indoor Intercollegiates...
...regatta. The three boats were nearly on a par for the greater part of the course, with the Crimson and Princeton battling for first place, but the Orange and Black eight came back with a driving spurt at the finish which gave it a quarter boat length's margin across the line. Navy finished in third place, a length astern the University shell...