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Going into the climactic race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s national championships on Saturday, the Harvard heavyweight first varsity expected its toughest challenge, a sprint down to the final 20 strokes. Never mind that the Crimson had won every other race this year by more than a length. This time, with the stakes so high, highly touted boats from Washington, Wisconsin and four-time defending champion California were supposed to make it close...
Harvard won the Varsity Challenge Cup, given to the best heavyweight first varsity at IRAs, for the first time in school history with a surprisingly large margin of victory of nearly four seconds over closest-finisher Washington...
Harvard also won the Ten Eyck trophy given to the overall points champion of all IRA races. That includes all Harvard heavyweight races and the Harvard and Radcliffe lightweight races. The Harvard heavyweight second varsity and freshman boat each placed third in their respective divisions...
Despite winning all of its spring races by open water, the Harvard men’s heavyweight first varsity boat has been ranked behind California in every weekly USRowing poll this season. It has been tough for the voters to overlook California, the four-time defending IRA national champions...
...Harvard victory at IRAs would be a historic feat not just because no Crimson heavyweight crew has ever won the IRA first varsity heavyweight race, but also because no Harvard crew has posted an undefeated spring season since the beginning of official national championship regattas...