Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good summer for Harvard athletics in England. Everyone knows of the triumph of the lightweight crew in the Thames Challenge Cup competition at Henley. Equally impressive, and also deserving of publicity, was the tennis team's joint victory with Yale in the Prentice Cup matches against a combined Oxford-Cambridge squad...
...curt note Moscow rejected the witness-backed U.S. statement that three fighter planes had intercepted an unarmed Air Force C-130 transport and its 17-man crew near the Turkish border on Sept. 2. forced it to fly into Soviet Armenia, where it crashed and burned. Instead, the Russians accused the U.S. of attempting to justify an "intentional violation" of the Soviet border, promised only that the bodies of six crew members found in the wreckage would be returned...
...rapid 40 strokes a minute rate. By the Remenham Barrier, the one-third marker, the lightweights had grabbed a quarter-length advantage, and stroke Mark Hoffman was understroking Thames. At Fawley, the eight increased their lead to half a length, and continued to understroke the heavier, older British crew...
After the race, Coach Brown exulted. "We realized the ambition of every lightweight crew: to beat the heavyweights in a straight race." The eight was the lightest crew there, and were proportionally handicapped. The careful training of long months on the Charles and in the tank, however, paid off; for the first time in the 128-years history of the Henley Regatta, Harvard triumphed...
...week later, at Hamburg, the lightweights did not do so well against stiff Continental competition. An unfamiliar boat and a strange course hampered the crew. But the important victory had been gained. For the fifteenth time in the last seventeen years, an American crew toted home the yard-high Thames Challenge Cup, established just 90 years...