Word: eight-oared
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During Gunderson's tenure, the Harvard crew has terrorized the Eastern Seaboard. The 1964 eight compiled an undefeated season in intercollegiate competition, captured the Eastern Sprint title, and finished second behind the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia in the Olympic eight-oar trials...
Harvard's heavyweight crew, the Olympic bridesmaids, scored a smashing victory in the featured eight-oar event in the 90th National Rowing Championships in New York Sunday...
...back of an extension of the dock, in relatively quiet waters, are two stationary single rigs. Similar in principle to the eight-oar, indoor tank in Newell, they are used for singles practice, with triangular holes in the oar-blades to simulate actual conditions...
Since February the Navy's eight-oar crew had practiced in a bathtub-sized inlet at Annapolis called College Creek. The creek, only 400 yards long, wandered around four bends and under three bridges. Navy's crew banked around the turns, used more rudder than oars, cussed the creek, and seemed to have become a crack outfit. On the broad Hudson at the Poughkeepsie intercollegiate regatta last week, the Annapolis crew proved...
...tremendous volume of participants in rowing is handled by Weld efficiently because of strict limitations on the time for which a boat may be used; 45 minutes is the longest. By enforcing several simple rules, the coaches are able to avoid accidents and collisions with eight-oar crews and with the other individual boats to a great extent...