Word: heavyweights
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Cassius Clay could not floor, stagger, seriously hurt challenger George Chuvalo in Toronto last night, but the heavyweight champion jabbed his way to a unanimous 15-round decision anyway...
Each year the Harvard's crew's record becomes harder and harder to match, but this spring heavyweight coach Harry Parker really has his work cut for him. He lost 14 lettermen from last year's spectacular boats, and that means an extensive reconstruction job ahead...
Only four lettermen are returning from last season's undefeated varsity and junior varsity heavyweight squads. This year's captain, Jim Tew, rowed in the number four position for last year's first boat. He is a veteran of the Olympic Games at Tokyo in 1964, where he rowed in the four-with-cox which Harvard sent to represent the United States. Other returning lettermen are Brian Clemow, who rowed five for the varsity, and Bill Goodman and Roger Howe, both up from the junior varsity...
...lightweights have departed from the traditional American style of rowing this year in favor of the slower more constant stroking motion practiced by many European crews. Parker adapted this European style for Harvard heavyweight crews last season. The switch-over proved somewhat difficult for the lightweight oarsmen earlier in the fall, but Weber says that they have now taken to the new style very well...
...best heavyweight fighter since Joe Louis, but the world he is champion of doesn't seem to care much about his boxing skills. The sporting public took notice only when the champion commented after his re-classification by the Army that he didn't "have no personal quarrel with them Viet Congs...