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...University has appointed a former Crimson oarsman to replace three-time Henley winner Lawrence Coolidge '53 as varsity lightweight crew coach, it was learned recently...
...third consecutive year the varsity lightweight crew went in late June to Henley-on-Thames, England, and returned with the Thames Cup, and undisputed symbol of supremacy in Anglo-American rowing...
Despite their favored status, the lightweights had no chance to rest easy during the regatta. At Henley the loss of a single trial heat means elimination. In its first such heat the Crimson drew Isis Boat Club, the second Oxford boat, which experts said would be the boat to beat...
...garde shovel blades called "Jumbo Bats," Isis tralled all the way, challenging only at the mile marker, where it came to within one-quarter length of the sprinting varsity. Crimson stroke Tony Goodman and company finished the mile, 550 yard course in 6:39, a new record for the Henley distance...
...been doing around there for years. And rather successfully, too: by almost any standard. Stuart Mackenzie, 24, is international sculling's foremost character-and finest practitioner. Last week, warming up for a try at his fourth straight victory in the famed Diamond Sculls at Britain's Henley Royal Regatta, the 6-ft. 4½-in., 196-lb. Mackenzie was skittering his one-man shell across the water like a nervous water bug. But. as always, he was relying almost as much on gamesmanship as on power to preserve his reputation as the world's best sculler...