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freshmen: freshmen are not allowed to row varsity crew in men's competition, so they form their own freshmen boats. The 1983 Harvard freshmen won the Ladies Challenge Plate at Henley, the second most prestigious event at that regatta...
...Henley: the most important regatta in the world each year. Held outside of London at Henley-on-Thames, the event pits the best shells in the world against each other. The Harvard heavyweight crew won the Grand Challenge Cup in July, beating Princeton in the final to claim the mythical world university championship...
Andy Sudduth: the best American single sculler. Sudduth, who graduated from Harvard in 1985, stroked the Harvard eight that won Henley, won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics as a member of the U.S. eight, and placed second in the world championships for single sculls this summer. He is the favorite to win the singles event at the Head...
...culture. Perhaps inspired by such punk guerrilla bands as Britain's Clash and the Sex Pistols in the late '70s, rock has buried higher consciousness under high conscience. "It's a rebirth of the spirit we had in the '60s, but it is a little more pragmatic," says Don Henley, whose performance of his A Month of Sundays at FarmAid was a high point...
While most Harvard athletes were vacationing, the Men's Varsity Crew team was off in England busy winning the world's premier rowing regatta. The Crimson took the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Rowing Regatta in Henley-on-Thames with a three-and-two-thirds lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years. Harvard had not won the prestigious event since...