Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good summer for Harvard athletics in England. Everyone knows of the triumph of the lightweight crew in the Thames Challenge Cup competition at Henley. Equally impressive, and also deserving of publicity, was the tennis team's joint victory with Yale in the Prentice Cup matches against a combined Oxford-Cambridge squad...
...invited to race is an honor, and to win an even greater one. After many years of waiting, 21 to be exact, a Harvard crew returned to England. And this time, the lightweight crew won the Thames Challenge Cup for the first time in the history of the College...
After the race, Coach Brown exulted. "We realized the ambition of every lightweight crew: to beat the heavyweights in a straight race." The eight was the lightest crew there, and were proportionally handicapped. The careful training of long months on the Charles and in the tank, however, paid off; for the first time in the 128-years history of the Henley Regatta, Harvard triumphed...
Henley soon lost the glamour of regatta week. The grandstands disappeared, traffic flow through the quaint town square returned to normal. But to eight Crimson rowers, their coxswain, their coach, and to their thousands of fans, this little village would always be a symbol of a magnificent effort.The lightweight eight in the Thames lock...
...biggest thing yet. Eleven years ago they opened a shop with less than $1,000 cash and plans to make slingshots. Since then they have added three dozen other toys and gadgets to their production, now employ 670. Last year they hit their first jackpot with a lightweight plastic platter, the "frisbee." They have already sold about 2,000,000 Hula Hoops (93? wholesale, a 16% gross profit), hope to sell millions more before the craze dies...