Word: duals
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...crew was forced to respond, and with a stronger heavyweight field breathing down its collective neck—not to mention the forces of history pressuring the squad all the more—this was a tall task.But respond it did. Bouncing back from 2006’s difficult dual season, the Black and White came out strong last spring, capturing early victories over then-No. 6 Princeton and Columbia and falling short against eventual national champion Brown by less than four seconds. After a successful 8-4 dual season, Radcliffe landed back where it belonged?...
...times and margins of victory tell the tale: an eight-second win for gold at Eastern Sprints, a 17-second thrashing of Sprints bronze medalist Princeton during the dual season, and an astonishing 42-second victory over Boston-rival MIT on the Charles River, to name...
...dual season, in fact, the freshmen consistently out-performed the varsity eight, notching faster times in each of the last three...
After honoring the almost annual tradition of dominating opponents during the dual-meet portion of the season—Harvard defeated the likes of Brown, Navy, and Princeton—the Crimson swept into Eastern Sprints carrying an undefeated 6-0 dual record and high expectations. Although the strength of the Yale varsity heavyweights, whom Harvard had not yet faced, remained uncertain, the Crimson jumped out to an early lead over the Bulldogs and never looked back, leading the pack from wire to wire. Bolstered by strong tail winds, Harvard set a new course record and took home the Sprints...
...Crimson would need that confidence, as the field at the IRA Championships—the national championship regatta—was one of the deepest in recent history. In addition to the EARC competition Harvard races during the dual season, several Pac-10 crews—such as Washington, California, and Stanford—also boasted powerful lineups at the 2007 IRAs...