Word: shells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third varsity shell races Amherst today at Amherst. Ian Gardiner, last year's varsity stroke, who rowed bow last Saturday, will stroke the third boat today. Coach Harry Parker made the switch in the middle of last week's workouts...
There are only two college crews in the East which can hope to seriously push the varsity Crimson shell this year: Northeastern and Pennsylvania. Last year, the Huskies came within one second of Harvard in the season debut. Harvard's coach Harry Parker says he is "impressed" with Northeastern's improvement since then...
...oarsmen in the varsity shell average 198 pounds...
...Penn is rumored to have morale problems. Joe Burke, coach of the Red and Blue heavies, has instituted a selection system for varsity shell boatings which has caused several defections from Penn to Vesper. The system is based on an objective point count of trial races won earlier this year. Burke has taken a big gamble on this new system, but it may work...
...airmen enclosed the besieged fortress in a virtual curtain of falling bombs. Though the Marines lost most of their original supply of artillery ammunition when an enemy shell hit their supply dump early in the siege, they were able to call in airpower for the sort of pinpoint destruction that is normally associated with howitzers. When the lowering clouds lifted a few hundred feet, dartlike Air Force F-100s, Navy and Marine F-4 fighter-bombers and stubby A-4 light bombers zipped under the overcast to place high explosives on the spreading enemy trenches. Huge, eight...