Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn, going into the race unbeaten for the seventh consecutive year, is again rebuilding a boat damaged by graduation. Where the Quakers once peaked for the Adams Cup, they now tend to mature later in the season, since they must compete in two cup races between the Sprints and the IRA. Again this spring, it may be a little early for the Quakers to put it all together...
...Harvard, though the circumstances are the same--an undefeated boat, slightly favored tomorrow--the same results would be a deep disappointment. Over the last eight years, the Crimson has won the Cup five times, but all of the victories were prior to 1968, when Penn snapped Harvard's 34-race unbeaten skein...
...Princeton is ever going to make a bid for the title, this is the year to do it. The Tigers have been building the present varsity boat for two years and are a superb, dedicated, and highly disciplined group. Every position is filled by a returning letterman and there are those observers who would rate Princeton the favorite in Saturday's race on the basis of the Tigers' 4-0 record...
...incident that occurred over intercession this year. "I was down at Princeton, talking with a friend who rows for them," Host recalls. "I was casually asking a few questions when the Princeton coach (Woody Fischer) came in, and, upon learning I was from Harvard, peremptorily evicted me from the boat house. I've got a personal vendetta to settle with them...
Four of those original freshmen. Munns, Larry Doerflein. Dave Murray and John Kiser will be in the Navy shell tomorrow afternoon, along with four sophomores from the Plebe boat that won the Sprint title again last May. It's an effective combination, though Ullrich changes it a little every week...