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...decision will keep the sport’s national championship under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA), an organization founded in 1894 by Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, and dominated by East Coast programs...
...East Coast is home to the IRA and the EARC and has long been the cradle of collegiate rowing. Harvard and Yale’s first race in 1852 marked the first ever collegiate athletic competition, and the IRA National Championship is held each year in Camden, New Jersey...
While boats from Pac-10 powerhouses like Washington, Stanford, and Cal must fly out to New Jersey and drive their boats across the country, East coast crews like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton can charter buses and incur far fewer costs to attend the IRA regatta...
There are the scheduling dilemmas as well: Harvard and Yale’s heavyweights both swore off the IRA regatta after 1897 to focus on the annual Harvard-Yale race. In 1973, Washington discontinued its annual trip to Camden, citing a scheduling conflict...
Though Harvard, Yale, and Washington have since returned to IRA competition (and with great success), discontent over location and timing is still prevalent...