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...besides the fact that it is the one hundredth anniversary of the Harvard-Yale race, it is also an Olympic year. The Crimson oarsmen will be pointing even more than usual for the four-mile New London Regatta, and then a week and a half later for the Olympic sprint tryouts...
...last instead of first. He pointed out that Harvard's crew would have a better chance this year, as the fourmile race is earlier--June 20, a day before the Poughkeepsie Regatta in which Crimson opponents compete--leaving a longer time to prepare for the Olympic sprint...
Inexplicably, the track team is one of the most closely-knit and spirited groups of athletes at Harvard. Last spring it finished a good season with a stunning upset of the Eli rivals, and a strong '54 squad promises to supply some sprint and distance men to bolster the 1952 chances...
...faltering in the Compton Cup race (loss to Princeton) and the Eastern sprint championships (second to Yale, easy conquest of Princeton), the Crimson crew displayed none of the exceptionally fine form it had shown in practice timings. The oarsmen lived up to their promise by upsetting Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup (Harvard's tenth straight) and later by breaking the two-mile record on Lake Cayuga...
...Gelck's sub-par performance in the broad jump enabled George Walker of Oxford to edge him with a jump of only 22 feet 7 inches. Oxford-Cambridge clinched the meet with an easy win by Chataway in the mile (4:15) and a one yard victory in the sprint relay. The Americans stared in disbelief at the 9-4 score as they quietly trooped off the field. "Somehow the whole meet just seemed like a bad dream," is the way one of the runners...