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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeyes, post: 294281, member: 34"] [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehUFBFpQLtc/S9glFhmH_KI/AAAAAAAAFns/C-wFt01t9ZU/s1600/0327001010a.jpg[/IMG] The village of Liverpool got great financial benefit during Regatta week. The Retreat was always jammed. They had a few items related to the event hanging on the walls. Can't imagine how much money Heid's took in that weekend. One of the most often heard comments was, "Oh there are boat races going on?" It was one rocking weekend and a great way to meet someone of the opposite sex or to just oogle at the PYT's or to get totally wasted. [IMG]http://www.row2k.com/features/ycn_part4_final.jpg[/IMG] This is a photo from the 1956 Olympic Trials Finals at Onondaga Lake where the order of finish was Yale, Cornell, Navy, Washington & Wisconsin, [IMG]http://www.row2k.com/features/Mallory60/mallory60-09.JPG[/IMG] Reclining Coxswain Kent Mitchell steers in the bow in this switch from the traditional stern seat for coxies in a George Pocock creation manned by stroke Dick Dreager [sp] and bow Conn Findlay as a Lake Washington Rowing Club entry in the U.S. Olympic Trials beginning on Onondaga Lake today. (photo from [I]The Post-Standard[/I] of Syracuse, New York) [URL='http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19521024&id=Ww4uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zIAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1728,3819704']Here is a news blurb[/URL] announcing that the 1953 intercollegiate rowing championships will be held June 20 at Onondaga Lake for the 2nd straight year. Beneath it there is more on why it moved to Syracuse from Marietta, Ohio. Scroll to the left of that article and there is a story about Ben Schwartzwalder, the 4th year head coach at Syracuse. Talks about the formations which he ran including one he concoted himself an unbalanced wing T. There are stories about Babe Zaharias and a college basketball event where 18,000 were expected to see George Mikan. Check out the Ellery Queen ad for Phillies cigars and the improved hole in the end. There is a story on a fight leading up to a possible matchup with Rocky Marciano. The Sanity Code for college sport was voted down. The Big 10 was only going to play each other home and home because of the scandals that have rocked college athletics. Phil Rizzuto is ordered to cut down on extra ciricular activities after a bout with a duodenal ulcer. Whitey Ford was just discharged from the Army & told to knock off 10-15 pounds. [/QUOTE]

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