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...contend with a strong headwind from the port side which blew us to starboard--the blades were hitting the water during a lot of the race," three-seat Charlie Storey said. "It was just as windy but not as choopy as the basin--it was definitely an uncharacteristic race, but the team really came together," he added...
With a 25-m.p.h. headwind and midwinter temperatures putting a sting in to the plushest of batting gloves and making a major leaguer out of URI's puff-balling Ron Barber, the Harvard baseball team dropped a 4-0 decision to the Rams at Bill Beck field here yesterday...
...race course was shortened from the normal 1500 meters to approximately 1400 meters, beginning below the Northeastern boathouse and finishing at Peabody Terrace with two bridges in the middle, because a strong quartering headwind (in between a direct crosswind and a direct headwind) worked havoc in the basin, making in unrowable...
...took 23 minutes and 26 seconds of sustained agony in a moderate headwind to cover the unusually slow course, but Harvard was not to be denied its revenge. Parker would say afterwards that his outsized team (Yale averaged 10 pounds more per man) won on courage and raw determination, giving him "by far the finest effort any boat ever made for me. They guys rowed a gutsy race all the way," Paker said...
Radcliffe jumped out to a three-seat lead and proceeded to match stroke for stroke over the first 1000 meters in the gusty Cambridge lane headwind. But over the final 500 meters, the 'Cliffe (who voted to retain the Radcliffe logo and name in keeping with tradition while other squads adopted the "Harvard women's" catch-all) caught a couple of devastating 'crabs' in the choppy surf...