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...Rude and Smooth dealt with the same national ranking difficulty that recent Crimson crews have had, in that Harvard often does not attend the official Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championship regatta. However, in 1974, after Harvard won the Eastern title, Western champion Washington invited the Crimson to an east-meets-west duel to determine the true national champion...
...Washington, the Crimson’s two boats stopped to race IRA champion Wisconsin on its home turf, defeated the Badgers as it had in Eastern Sprints and silenced any talk of IRA superiority. Harvard then went on to beat the Huskies and seal the title, with the Crimson junior varsity boat setting a Washington course record, only to watch it broken 20 minutes later by the varsity crew...
Behind the monikers, those crews are simply the U.S. national team, the defending world-champion Canadian national team and another U.S. national team boat...
...There are several sitting city councillors who would love to be seen as the champion on this issue,” he says...
...McLean-Foreman will race against his main rivals Meyer and Jarrod Shoemaker of Dartmouth, who finished just behind Meyer this weekend, for the title of Ivy League champion...