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Dartmouth took an unusually long time to regroup after the crab, and the fast-finishing Crimson won by a nose (6:18) with MIT finishing about two lengths back...
...there came a voice from on high: "Let the Dartmouth number four man pulleth a crab." And he did. And so it came to pass that the Harvard lights pulled out a two-seat victory over Dartmouth after trailing by one-and-a-half lenghts with 200 meters...
Unlike Columbia, "they did not lay down and die for us," Higginson said. "We were pulling them back enough to worry them, but not enough to make them pull a crab...
Harvard captain Jeff Parker yesterday described the miracle that followed: "I don't think we would have caught them, but then our cox yelled 'They caught a crab' and a few strokes later he said 'they still haven't started.' Before I knew it we were pulling even with them with 20 strokes...
Dartmouth must have had an inkling of what would happen when their J.V. crew "lost the five man into the drink," as Higginson put it. They were also leading at the time of this crab but the Crimson was able to win easily in 6:22, 13 seconds ahead...