Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competitive sailing, as far as Harvard is concerned, reaches its grand climax this weekend in New London. The two Crimson boats, which came in second last Saturday in the eliminations, sail in the New England Championship regatta...
Competitive sailing, as far as Harvard is concerned, reaches its grand climax this weekend in New London. The two Crimson boats, who came in second last Saturday in the eliminations, sail in the New England Championship regatta...
Boston University, Northeastern, Boston College, and Tufts finished behind the Crimson in that order. Pete Putnam, Frank Scully, and John Gardner skippered the Harvard boats in the round robin, which had each crew sail six times in six different boats...
...crew it's the picture that draws the kids here and it's the picture the grads take away with them. And for some of these grads Houses become unimportant. Those are the guys who wouldn't walk a block to see a world series game, but will sail a couple of thousand miles to be along the finish line on the Thames at New London when the Harvard and Yale crews race that tortuous four miler in June...
...book learnin'? In Boston-trained Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) he finds a plot-making compromise. Lunceford, he figures, has enough schooling to keep both a ship and Little Jed's education afloat. After a slow, landlubberly beginning, the three of them, with Dan as first mate, set sail for the whaling grounds and a few stern lessons in character-building...