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...this is the myth. The reality is an assorted conglomeration of students, no one group really predominating. Its sports are taken seriously by some while ignored by others--although the House crew has traditionally dominated intramural competition and even returned from Henley with honors...
...sloop he sails on Maine's Penobscot Bay, he decided that he might not be able to serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week if he was feeling his years, Salty beamed: "I'll take you on any time." He probably could...
...junior singles, Ed Tripp, who rowed for the Yale and Cambridge crews and for the Leander Boat Club at Henley, will be an entrant from Weld Boathouse...
...weeks ago, Adam got his chance for revenge. At England's 126-year-old Henley Royal Regatta, the Ascot of crew racing, Vesper knocked off Harvard, the best college crew in the U.S. In the finals, to determine the best crew in the world, it was Ratzeburg against Vesper. Ratzeburg led all the way, finished half a length ahead, set a new Henley record of 6 min. 16 sec. for the one-mile and 550-yd. course...
Neither Vesper's Olympic Champion crew, which beat Harvard at Henley a week ago, nor Germany's Ratzeburg boat, which that Vesper in the finals, rowed at Lucerne. But the crews Harvard t were the best of the rest, and included the top boats form four curtain countries...