Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...untimely death of Harvey Love, 52, Monday, brought a sudden and regrettable end to an era in Harvard rowing. Together Love, and his predecessor and college coach Thomas D. Bolles gave Harvard many of its finest crews and made the Crimson one of the most feared names in American rowing circles for 26 years...
...oarsmen. "We always felt we were rowing for Harvey more than for Harvard," said a graduate. "He was a little man--a cox--among giants," he continued, "but he could sympathize with the rowers and get the best out of us. He was truly one of the finest men I've known...
Love's careful coaching paid off in 1959, however, with what may have been the very finest of all the crews in Harvard's history. For the first time since 1948 the Crimson went undefeated, beating Yale as it was to do for the next three years, and winning the Comptom Cup, the Eastern Sprint Championships, and finally, the Grand Challange Cup at Henley...
...undergraduate at University of Washington, Love had been coxswain of his crew, which was coached by Bolles. About him then, Bolles says "he was the finest coxswain I ever saw." "He was a grand little guy," his long-time associate adds...
...great technicians," according to Bolles, Love earned a reputation for coaching "picture crews," that were outstanding for their technical proficiency. The undefeated crew of '59 was his finest season, when the boys won not only the Eastern Championship, but travelled to England to win the grand challenge cup at Henley...