Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately for the Crimson, they officially placed only second because of close, illegal, and, to be perfectly honest, rather mysterious encounters with four different buoy markers. Despite the fact that her boat started first, traveled fastest, and thus avoided any interference problems with other boats, the Crimson cox, Liz-Ellen LaFollette managed to steer the scull on the wrong side of four buoys. I guess Harvard sometimes has to make gestures that will keep the other crews coming back for more. Like the men's heavyweight varsity loss to Yale at the sprints for the first time since...
...finally got past those jerks doing the mosquito imitation, and now you're taking ten along Magazine Beach. Watch out for the green buoys--you have to take this turn real tightly, like put your starboard oars over into forbidden water. But careful, if the boat goes outside a buoy, bang, that's a ten-second penalty. And you bet they watch you. Oh yeah, when you make the corner, look out--there's often a brisk wind and strong current that sends a couple boats onto the rocks every year...
With Yale in the lead by a length down the final stretch, Eli cox Guy Gregoire failed to see a navigational buoy, which quickly chewed up the oar of number seven man Al Lawn. While Lawn was jumping overboard with the useless oar, Yale quickly lost its comfortable margin (and would have been disqualified by Lawn's swim anyway) to the surging Crimson...
...disconsolate Gregoire and angry coach Johnson claimed that the referee should have warned the boat about the buoy and wanted the race re-run. But the ref, Robert Morey (a former Yale Olympian rower) ruled that both squads were instructed about the buoy in advance, and vetoed the proposal...
...bunchmeister on this day was first baseman Mark Bingham, whose three-run homer to right field in the sixth pushed home all the runs that starter Larry Brown needed to buoy the victory...