Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's heavyweight crew completed its pristine 1980 season by trouncing Yale in the 115th renewal of the nation's oldest intercollegiate athletic competition on the Thames River in New London, Conn., June...
...content to rest on its pre-Commencement laurels, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew ventured to the National Championships in Oakridge, Tenn., last week, rowing in a dozen races and finishing in the top five in the three major events...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew displayed awesome raw power this spring in thundering to impressive victories over MIT, Dartmouth, BU, NU, Princeton, Cornell and Yale. But at the Eastern Sprints championships on Connecticut's Lake Waramug, the heavies' comeback effort fell just short and they wound up second a fraction of a second behind an upstart Penn boat...
...heavyweight oarswomen's aggressive style compensated for an occasional lack of smoothness. Co-captains Kelly Ronan and Karen Spencer furnished strong leadership, plying the murky Charles from the two bow seats. The only other rower who will be lost to graduation is senior stroke Jenny Stone...
...times like these we have to. For the hell of it one day, about 15 kids, aged ten to 13 according to reports, decided to have some fun. They stood on the Weeks Memorial Bridge and rained "rocks, bottles and pieces of wood" on the freshman heavyweight crew team passing below. "The kids don't at all understand the seriousness of their behavior," said coach Ted Washburn. This was by no means an act of revolution; it made no sense at all. It was the kind of thing that was happening at Harvard ten years ago this spring...