The Cornell navy : a review . ing Decoration Day 1905 is one long to be rememberedby Cornellians. On that day the Harvard Varsity wasdefeated at Cambridge by six lengths in a two-mile race,with banks and housetops thronged by a tremendouscrow^d. At the same time the Junior Varsity, with a stroketaken from the Freshman crew^ at the eleventh hour, w^asclipping two seconds from the record of the AmericanHenley course on the Schuylkill, defeating the Yale andPennsylvania representatives; while in other branchesManhattan w^as defeated in baseball 2 to 0, and the Inter-collegiate Track Meet was won
The Cornell navy : a review . ing Decoration Day 1905 is one long to be rememberedby Cornellians. On that day the Harvard Varsity wasdefeated at Cambridge by six lengths in a two-mile race,with banks and housetops thronged by a tremendouscrow^d. At the same time the Junior Varsity, with a stroketaken from the Freshman crew^ at the eleventh hour, w^asclipping two seconds from the record of the AmericanHenley course on the Schuylkill, defeating the Yale andPennsylvania representatives; while in other branchesManhattan w^as defeated in baseball 2 to 0, and the Inter-collegiate Track Meet was won at Philadelphia by a closemargin. The 1905 Varsity crew was easily the best of the longline of Cornell crews, many experts agreeing that it w^as thefastest crew that ever sat in an American shell. The timeof the four-mile race at Poughkeepsie was not fast, owing to unfavorable conditions at thetime, but previously the crew had rowed over the course in 18 minutes 33 seconds and hadrow^ed up-stream in 18 minutes 24 i/2 46
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