Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 400 men were on the original roster of hopefuls earlier this year. Ergometer and small-boats tests halved that number in May, and more intensive trials pared the list of candidates to 57 by the first week in June. The addition of several members of the IRA champion Pennsylvania crew pushed the roster back over 60 again, and it will be from those five dozen that Harvard, and then Olympic coach Harry Parker, will choose the eight, the four, and two spares that will go to Munich this summer...
...rowing its first race since winning the IRA championship last June, actually led Navy after 500 meters, and came within a quarter of a length of winning. It was not the most impressive margin of victory that could have been desired, but then, the Midshipmen have customarily stroked only as hard as they had to to win this season...
...going into the race unbeaten for the seventh consecutive year, is again rebuilding a boat damaged by graduation. Where the Quakers once peaked for the Adams Cup, they now tend to mature later in the season, since they must compete in two cup races between the Sprints and the IRA. Again this spring, it may be a little early for the Quakers to put it all together...
...race, of course," he says, "and it means a lot, especially with three unbeaten boats. But we try to get up for every race, no matter who the opponent. We wanted to beat Princeton because we hadn't since 1961. We knew Cornell would be strong after IRA finals last year. We just naturally assume that every boat in every race has a good chance of winning, and we take it from there...
Really we practitioners of the new politics ought to be able to do better than that. Ira Forman '74 Co-chairman of H-R Students for Muskie