Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Essentially the second crew race was the same. Joe Woods, understroking the other boats with a 28, managed to hold his early lead, finished a length and a quarter in front of Kirkland. Lowell again was third, and Leverett was four lengths behind the Bellboys...
...years ago, Wonson issued only two bases on balls. He set down the Crimson batters in order until when two were out in the sixth, shortstop Freddy Keyes dropped a single over the head of the Indian first-sacker. Gil Whittemore, up next, fouled to the catcher for the third...
Also yesterday afternoon were the qualifying races for second House crews, which were held over the Henley distance of the one mile and five-sixteenths. In the first heat Kirkland House won Leverett next, and Adams third; in the second, Eliot, Lowell, and Winthrop finished in that order...
...absence of his regular sprinters Coach Mikkola was forced to borrow men from other events. He converted quarter-miler Ted Meredith into a sprinter. Although Meredith did creditably in the Dartmouth meet, finishing third behind Ritter, winner of the Heptagonal dash his time of 10.2 could not offer any competition for Owen and Rothschild, the Yale dash...
...record fell when Princeton captured the mile relay in the excellent time of 3:17.2, breaking the former mark of 3.18 set by the Big Green in 1937. Ed Burrowes, a one man track team, raced for Princeton in this event and further aided Nassau's cause with a third in the mile run. Without his Herculean assignment Burrowes would undoubtedly have won the mile, for the week before he had gained an easy victory over the winner, Dick Morss of Yale, in 7-10ths of a second better time than was made Saturday. Harvard finished fifth...