Word: burke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Monday, Pennsylvania's Joe Burk spoke to the weekly luncheon of crew coaches, and as much as told them his crew had the speed to beat Harvard this year. He said his oarsmen were "ten seconds faster than Vesper...
...Burk made the assertion after comparing Penn's time against Yale and Columbia last Saturday with a time trial which Vesper made down the same course shortly thereafter...
Parker, however, tends to discount Burk's interpretation. He maintains it is impossible to compare times in a race with no opposition...
...Burk, the grand old man of Eastern rowing, knows his business, and his prediction may be more than an effort to psych Harvard out. It could be close...
...Burk says his unique selection system for boat placement this season has worked "extremely well." Those who will row in the first shell are chosen by a point system based on how many races each oarsman has won during work-outs...