Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout last week, American newspapers neglected the Leander Rowing Club in their coverage of the Thames Cup at the Henley Regatta. On Saturday, Harard's lightweight crew found out about the British eight for themselves, and for the second consecutive summer, the Crimson will return from England empty-handed...
...save hardened English rowing enthusiasts, had paid attention to Leander even though it had taken the Thames Cup with relative ease last July. It was a mistake both Harvard and Penn were to discover later. The Britishers had quietly brushed off early-round competition and early Friday unceremoniously dumped the Isis Boat Club to gain the semifinals...
...unheralded Yale four dumped Penn in the first round. The freshman boat was humiliated by Leander. And in the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup, Henley's premier event, the Quaker varsity found that there is not one crew that it cannot beat, but at least two. Einheit Dresden, a crack East German crew, practiced entirely on their home rivers in preparation for Henley...
...unseen, unknown, and Saturday afternoon beat down every challenge the mammoth Penn varsity threw at them. Penn tried a fast start, a crippling high stroke, and fierce power to try to overtake the Germans. All three methods were about the three-quarters of a length inadequate. The Grand Challenge Cup went back to East Germany, where it has been for four of the past five years...
...several European regattas in addition to their quest at Henley, the Royal Regatta will be the final race for all Harvard crews this year. The Crimson heavyweights, who smashed Penn at the Eastern Sprints, undoubtedly would have presented an extremely difficult obstacle to Einheit Dresden in the Grand Challenge Cup finals, but the Harvard boat is physically and psychologically spent from nearly three years of full-time rowing. The Crimson lights, however, wanted another crack at Henley. Now, they have had the crack...