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Since September, the Harvard Varsity Lightweight (HVL) Crew has trained for nearly 540 hours. So far, that work has led to positive results in just over 18 minutes of racing...
...Harvard oarsman will remind you, the real test comes annually on this week, when Harvard, Yale, and Princeton do battle at the highly contested Goldthwait Cup. The HYPs, for short, are often a prelude to the EARC Sprints Championship and the national championship. In some years, the crew that has won at HYPs has gone on to be Eastern and national champions...
...striking even-odd year pattern of results, winning in the odd years and falling short in the even years. As far back as 1993, the varsity boat won the national championship. Yet, in 1994, with six returning seniors who were all national champions from the year before, the crew was unable to pull everything together, coming up short in both end-of-the-season races...
True to this seemingly pre-destined rate, the 1995 varsity regrouped after a defeat at HYPS and won both Easterns and nationals. The pattern continued for the 1996 crew, who lost to Princeton at nationals by the smallest margin in recent memory. Race officials actually spent 10 minutes reviewing video the determine who won. In the end they said that Princeton has prevailed by the length of the rubber bow ball at the end of the boat--about two inches. And that tiny difference sent one team into greatest elation and the other into the depths of despair. 1997 captain...
...course in 1997, after the drama of the previous year, the varsity boat won both EARC and IRA victories, and then, still following this odd even curse, the 1998 crew fell to their old nemesis, Princeton, at nationals. Last year was Maclaurin's and Weiss' first year on the varsity boat, so unlike Fallows and Lenhart, they have not won a national championship...