¶ Navy's unbeaten crew, the Olympic trials; at Worcester, Mass. In the final, the Navy shell whipped Princeton by 2½ lengths and swamped the perennial West Coast powerhouses, Washington (by 3 lengths) and California (by 3½). Navy's time: 5:57.7, just one second off California's 1948 Olympic trial mark. Finishing at a sprinting beat of 42 strokes a minute, the midshipmen became the first Olympic crew from the Eastern U.S. since Yale's 1924 crew, the first from Annapolis since 1920.
¶The University of Pennsylvania's 150-lb. crew by 1¼ lengths over Cambridge's Christ's College on a 1-mile-550-yd. course, to retain the Thames Challenge Cup;...
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