Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced many fine sailors during the years, including 1978 graduate Laura Brown, who was named the outstanding woman athlete of 1978 by the Radcliffe Alumni Association. Russell Long, a 1977 graduate and former team member, will be skippering in a race to determine who will defend the America's Cup next year. Harvard has had four All-American sailors in the past five years and has more members of the Sailing Hall of Fame than any other college...
...this year is trying to maintain its position near the top of the college sailing heap. They placed second out of seven at the President's Trophy meet hosted and won by B.U. The next day they snatched third place amid a field of nine at the Captain's Cup behind host Tufts and the B.U. squad...
Almost. The four-mile ceremony of pain ended with the Crimson ahead again, the Sexton Cup secure in Newell Boat House again, and the rivalry in the nation's oldest intercollegiate sporting event again in Harvard dominion. It took a new upstream record to do it, but the Crimson won its 17th straight and its 67th out of 114 Sexton Cups...
...Yale was doing the same thing every week and had won the Sprints the year before, so it remained the boat to beat. The confrontation would come in two parts, with the Eastern Sprints opening the battle in mid-May, and the Sexton Cup settling matters in early June...
...Altekruse notes that such a strategy would not work as well in the four-mile Sexton Cup encounter. "We knew that in a four-mile race, if we could hold them in the middle two miles, they couldn't be so psyched to pull away at the end," he says...