The Cornell navy : a review . was reached, and several others were on the point of collapse, butthe other crews seemed little the worse for the four mile struggle. One correspondent said that Cornell won the race with so little seeming effort that onecould hardly believe she wasnt rowing in a steam launch. Bob Cook said it was, with theexception of Henley, the first real race Yale had rowed in for ten years, and that it was acontest in which Yale might well feel proud to have come in second. 40 In the Freshman race, Cornell lost for the first time in the history of her Freshman crews,Yale and
The Cornell navy : a review . was reached, and several others were on the point of collapse, butthe other crews seemed little the worse for the four mile struggle. One correspondent said that Cornell won the race with so little seeming effort that onecould hardly believe she wasnt rowing in a steam launch. Bob Cook said it was, with theexception of Henley, the first real race Yale had rowed in for ten years, and that it was acontest in which Yale might well feel proud to have come in second. 40 In the Freshman race, Cornell lost for the first time in the history of her Freshman crews,Yale and Harvard both crossing the line in front of her and all three crews breaking therecord for two miles. A w^eek later the Freshmen defeated Pennsylvania and Columbia in a terrific struggle,while the Varsity defeated Columbia by ten lengths, Pennsylvania swamping at about the twoand a half mile point. Earlier in the year the Cornell second Varsity defeated the NavalCadets at Annapolis over a two mile course by about two VARSITY 1898 Colson Briggs Savage Beardslee Moore Bailey Wakeman Bentley Dalz<
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