Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman ranks, first-year coach Greg Stone, the bowman of last year's heavyweight national champion boat, is faced with a longstanding tradition to uphold. The frosh lights have not lost a race since time immemorial, but Stone is not overly awed by his task...
...although national team member Lief Soderberg decided to hang up his oar for this year and starboard oarsman Mike Loucks has moved up to the heavyweight ranks, Higginson's eight will still be the boat to beat, as it kicks off its season today against Columbia and Rutgers...
What can you say about a Radcliffe heavyweight crew that has seven rowers returning from its Sprints-winning varsity eight of last year? Awesome? Unbeatable? A sure bet to claim supremacy among women's collegiate crews for the fourth straight season...
Second year lightweight coach Peter Huntsman isn't quite as fortunate as Raymond. Huntsman has only three rowers back from last year's first boat which finished second in the Eastern Sprints and lost by five feet in the National Championships. But two heavyweight rowers who slimmed down, and three strong novice oarswomen, including Barbara Pearce, who made the unlikely switch from coxswain to rower, have bolstered the 'Cliffe 125 pounders...
...hated to give them up," admitted Muhammad Ali. But the heavyweight soon kayoed his emotions. Thus on June 9, a pair of 8-oz. gloves and a terrycloth robe will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat...