Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only three oarsmen, Rob Lolff at seven, Fred Fisher at four, and Joe Bragwell at three, return from last July's unsuccessful boat, and together with four sophomores, a senior up from the JV's, and a new cox, from a distinctly different, smoother rowing crew...
With an undefeated season under its belt, and the mythical national championship in its pocket. Harvard's varsity lightweight crew will go, after a higher goal--the Thames Cup--when it competes this week in the annual Regatta at Henley-on-Thames, England...
Last July, another unbeaten Crimson eight sought the same goal, with results the present crew will try to avenge. With the cream of the world's crews shooting for Olympic berths last summer, Harvard's lights had figured to dominate Henley. They didn't. A Cornell boat that the Crimson had ripped at the Eastern Sprints dumped them at the American Henley in a warm-up race, then slaughtered them in England a week later...
...Harvard will still have plenty of competition. The mammoth Penn freshmen heavies, who capped an unbeaten spring with triumphs at the Sprints and the I.R.A., as well as a strong M.I.T. varsity eight will both present stiff challenges, and there are several entries from England and a German crew as well...
...Ellen is pregnant, and the marriage has to be a bit of a scramble. There is a mad, drunken bus ride on the part of the groom. In a scene of smothered hilarity, the couple receive spiritual instructions (and an introductory sex manual) from a young minister with a crew...