Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world is all right. John Higginson is a genius, the Harvard lightweight crew outstroked MIT and Dartmouth on the Charles Saturday morning, and its path to the Eastern Sprints in May is without obstacles...
Early on, the race looked like an unexpectedly easy victory for a Crimson crew that came in uncertain that they would win. In a light breeze and bright sunlight, Harvard came the start even, then gradually pulled away from MIT. By 500 meters the Crimson had two seats on MIT and six on a Dartmouth squad that had been desperately practicing this week on the only 500 unfrozen meters of the Connecticut River near Hanover...
SURPRISE! The Harvard heavyweight crew outrowed Brown Saturday in Providence to capture the Stein Trophy for the 14th consecutive year...
Aitken expressed surprise last night at the quality of the Bruin crew. "It was one of the few races in which we've pulled out in front by about half a length of open water and the other crew hasn't packed it in," he said...
Harvard had outdistanced Brown by two lengths in the San Diego Crew Classic on April 1, about the margin they would have had Saturday were it not for the crab. This does not mean that Harvard has not improved since then, for as Aitken emphasized, Brown was faster in Providence than they were in California. Gardiner also pointed out that rough conditions in general tend to cut down victory margins...