Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Things were all messed up, and there seemed to be no direction to what was happening. But then Elvis returned to the charts. After that, the Sox and Senators started winning. And now, after unheard of success by Penn teams in competition with Harvard, coach Harry Parker sent his heavyweight crew out to right matters. Equality can be a good thing, but when Harvard starts losing to the Quakers in all manner of sports, I think things have gone...
...University of Pennsylvania for the athletic program used to be like going to Wool-worth's to buy a suit. But some of the more ambitious persons connected with Penn went out to rustle up some jocks, and the shortest of chats with some of the Quaker's heavyweight oarsmen, last Saturday at Worcester makes it quite clear that they came up with a pretty rare and rugged species. After a while, even the most docile get tired of losing, and take steps to reverse the trend. Ask Dick Nixon...
Penn will be especially dangerous in the lightweight finals since it will be aiming for a sweep to complement a possible sweep in the heavyweight division...
...heavyweight class, Harvard and Penn should have little strain in qualifying for the finals. The Crimson will race in the second heat against Brown. Wisconsin, Columbia, and B.U. The winner and runner-up in each of the three heavyweight heats makes the finals...
With everything else going wrong for Harvard this year, Crimson, sports fans in the past two weeks have been able to take a little solace in the fact that the varsity heavyweight crew was still the "best in the East." It was something that restored a little sanity to the strife (or strike)-torn Harvard scene...