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Coach Michael Horn found a good omen in the squadron's victory. "Every time we win the Owen Trophy, we go on to do well in the Northeastern championships," he noted confidently...
...Irish embraced their new martyrs with a vengeance. An anguished cry went up that resounded all the way down to Washington, where Woodrow Wilson--a wise man who knew where his next vote was coming from, and that it often spoke with a brogue--got on the horn to London. By a miracle, the British government freed the surviving insurrectionists. The revolution continued in Ireland, and the Irish in America again broke out their proud green flags...
Coach Michael Horn's charges have reason to keep in practice. Coming off a second-place finish in last weekend's Boston Dinghy Cup regatta, the varsity sailors will have their tillers full trying to keep abreast of the always-tough armadas from Tufts, Yale and the University of Rhode Island in the race for a season-end berth in the North American championships. 'It's a rough year in the Northeast," Horn notes, and with only three of the top teams qualifying for the year-end shindig the team will have to keep its sails trim...
...Neff, senior Tom Reps, and junior co-captains Russell Long and Jim Hammitt, the sailors breezed home ahead of top-ranked Yale and traditional powerhouse Tufts in last weekend's meet, trailing only URI. The national sailing journals rate the Crimson between sixth and eighth in the nation, and Horn is confident his crew will wind up the season even better than that...
Following along in the squadron line are the freshmen, who really bring a smile to Horn's face. Last weekend skippers Steve Strittmatter and Nick Stone led the yardlin shipmates past the Coast Guard Academy and B.U. to take home first place at the season's first freshman invitational. "It looks very promising, to say the least," Horn says, with visions of first-place silverware undoubtedly doing a merry jig through his head...