Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard crew coach John Higginson has a sign hanging over the door of his lightweight oarsmen's locker room which reads, "Please don't feed the oarsmen." The sign serves two purposes. First, it reminds the rowers to stay under the prohibitory 160 pound limit and second it keeps the crew sufficiently hungry from race to race that come each weekend the Crimson lights go out and feast on whatever unsuspecting boats come their...
Well, the grande bouffe for Higginson's hungry charges will be served up this Sunday on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., as a 12-crew course of oarsmen will be on hand for the annual running of the Eastern Sprints...
...Harvard varsity lightweights avenged last year's man overboard loss to Navy as John Higginson's eight cruised home with its twelfth Haines Cup in 13 years, stroking through the Midshipmen and the UMass heavies on a fast, tailwind-aided Charles River on Saturday...
Dartmouth loomed up as a prime early season challenge to the Crimson's eights after it so handily outrowed John Higginson's charges in Henley last summer. And Higginson was not about to let Harvard's crew underestimate Hanover's popock pullers. On Friday he stopped his varsity's pre-race practice to remind last year's first boaters "just how quickly Dartmouth...
...Well, Higginson's fears materialized immediately Saturday as the Big Green jumped out to a half length lead at the outset. But slowly Ned Reynolds and company got their boat together, and by the 1000 meter mark the Crimson eight had pulled even with the host boat...