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...seniors out are veterans of last year's varsity. In addition there are a number of juniors back, members of both last year's varsity and the undefeated J.V. Best of all, last year's freshman crew won going away in every race, including the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley, England, and nearly all of those frosh are back. In fact, it appears that, on paper anyway, this year's oarsmen are the best group in quite a few years and that much talent, along with Parker's ability, has to make the Crimson the crew to beat...
...many youngsters are brought up they are groomed for tailgating, often cutting their teeth on the discovery that tailgate are made out of steel. The Princeton game has always been the Henley of tailgating events, with its proximity to election day usually making it even more interesting. Some Harvard undergraduates have been sneering at Nixon stickers on Princeton cars for a full twelve years. Even without the political sidelights the Princeton tailgating convocation has been tremendously important. It has often been said, with considerable justification, that Ivy League supremacy is fought and won on the parking fields of Princeton. Luckily...
...addition, a Crimson four including three of last year's Henley-winning freshman crew--Tiff Wood, Blair Brooks and Greg Stone--placed third, only four seconds off the winning pace of the Potomac Boat Club in the Elite Fours...
...their nonrowing classmates, while the 82 Yale men did slightly better, living 67.91 years to their classmates' 61.56. Only half as many rowers died before age 60 as did nonrowers. Prout dramatized his thesis by digging up a picture of the Harvard junior varsity crew that won at Henley-on-Thames in 1914. He managed 50 years later to round up every one of them-including then Bow Oar Senator Leverett Saltonstall-and boated the whole crew in a shell on the same course. Incidentally, not one of them had developed an unmanageable paunch...
Last summer, the lightweights traveled to Europe and continued their strive. In England at the Henley Cup races, both the eight and the four-man boats triumphed--the first time that American contestants had taken both titles in the history of the competition...