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...overcast June morning the week of the national championship race in Cincinnati, Jon Bernstein looked out onto the Charles River at the JV and Freshmen boats in the water behind him. The team captain, Bernstein was in the Varsity boat up ahead...
...Eastern Sprints in May. And the Varsity, especially proud, won both the Eastern Sprints and the big Yale Race. The last of the "Big Three" races for the Crimson would be at the end of that week--the Men's Collegiate Nationals, known more commonly as the Cincinnati Regatta...
They seemed to be on a roll. And going by Harvard's general luck in the nationals in the past--the Crimson had won the heavyweight title at the prestigious Cincinnati Regatta for the past three years--most of the rowers believed they would leave Ohio with the national title...
Instead, the Crimson mainly focused on Washington as the team to beat. It was the Washington team that had taken the top honor away from Harvard in the first regatta of the year in San Diego in April, by a very close margin. The Crimson went to Cincinnati determined not to let that happen again...
With the added experience gained from the junior nationals, Harvard Coach Harry Parker put Sharis in the Harvard varsity boat the following spring and Sharis' newfound magic touch continued to rub off, as the Crimson eight went on to win the national championship in Cincinnati...