Word: crew
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...victory meant more than the Eastern championship, though. Much more. By smashing Wisconsin and Yale in the most competitive regatta in the country, the crew established itself as the fastest collegiate eight in the nation...
Wisconsin, Yale, and Radcliffe all entered the EWRA undefeated. Yale was first-seeded, although the reasons for the choice were far from clear. Both the Elis and Radcliffe could boast of having beaten certain common opponents by more than the other crew...
Women's rowing is a recent entrant to the collegiate sports scene. The foundation of the EWRA only three years ago marked the official beginning of what has now become a major collegiate sporting event. Before that time only a few women's crew existed. And most of them, such as Wellesley (which had the first women's crew) did not compete at all. Instead, rowing was viewed merely as pleasant exercise...
Three years ago John Baker, an ex-Harvard heavyweight oarsman, assumed Radcliffe's coaching chores on a no-salary, volunteer basis. Around a nucleus of five freshmen. Baker built the crew into national champions in the space of a single season...
...crew lost but once that year, in April to a tough Princeton eight by one second. They bounced back in the first EWRA championships, though, trouncing the Tigers by two lengths. Then, in the national championships in Philadelphia, they overcame a strong Vesper boat club crew by one second to win the right to represent the U.S. in the World Championships at Moscow...