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...days later, we found ourselves heading up toward the course for the race, amid a breathtaking spectacle of pleasure boats, fancy women’s hats, and Pimms-indulged cheering. A varsity lightweight boat with an in-season average of 155 pounds per man, we found ourselves facing off against the better part of Cambridge’s reserve crew—average weight: somewhere around 200 pounds. Our competition included several post-graduates, as well. The team had set a record in the reserve race against Oxford several months before. We were collectively outweighed by around 240 pounds...
Harvard suffered an equipment breakage just three strokes into its opening-round race with Cambridge in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate event and lost by five boat lengths on Friday, July 1. In the furious first strokes of the start, five-seat Griffin Schroeder ‘05’s seat jammed, preventing him from reaching full slide and forcing him to stop briefly as the boat worked up to speed...
...Crimson quickly fell behind a Cambridge boat of heavyweight oarsmen. Harvard’s lightweight squad, competing in an open-weight division for the first time all season, gave up approximately 30 pounds per oarsmen to the Cambridge crew...
...come as the most tremendous shock, and it is almost impossible to comprehend that he is no longer with us, that his smile and quiet voice, his generous spirit, and his outstanding athleticism, will no longer grace the Dining Hall at Eliot or the dock at the Weld Boat House...
...port city. Six American syndicates want the chance to confront the Australian defender in the finals at the end of the southern summer next February. So do two teams each from France and Italy, as well as entries from Britain, Canada and New Zealand, whose unique fiber-glass boat was doing well enough last week to draw a protest. This week four Australian boats, including another of Bond's, will begin competing for the honor of defending...