Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regatta with a vengence this week. It attacked it on Saturday, when the Crimson dumped Cambridge University by a half-length, breaking the record on the quarter-mile practice course. It attacked it on Sunday, during a practice run, when Harvard shattered the half-mile record, set by Leander Boat Club last summer, by over four seconds...
Only three oarsmen, Rob Lolff at seven, Fred Fisher at four, and Joe Bragwell at three, return from last July's unsuccessful boat, and together with four sophomores, a senior up from the JV's, and a new cox, from a distinctly different, smoother rowing crew...
...many challenge races the Regatta offers, the Thames Cup ranks second only to the Grand Challenge cup in terms of difficulty and prestige. The absence of weight limits, which will throw the lights boats outweighing them by 50 pounds per man, presents the Crimson boat with another problem...
...Harvard must not be underestimated, either. The Crimson roared unchallenged through four races during the regular season, then scattered a bid by a undefeated Penn boat all over the Lake Quansigamond at the Sprints. Its 6:02 clocking against Navy rates as the best effort of any of the Thames Cup entries, and its ability to grab an early lead and hold it has become a formidable Harvard trademark...
...Harvard has beaten the M.I.T. boat twice this year, and should expect little trouble from the London Rowing Club, which leads a flock of local English entries. A west German eight is also competing and the presence of the Garda Siochana, a boatload of husky Dublin policemen, is not unexpected...