Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motor boat made its way up the Charles, its skipper oblivious to the racing shells around it, is a moot point. But after being called every foul name imaginable by fans and the rowers returning to their docks from the finish of the lightweight eight race (which St. Catharine's Rowing Club of Canada won with an unofficial time of 15:23.1), the skipper of the pleasure boat threw a line to a passing kayaker, who then towed the boat out of the racing lane...
...lightweight eights, the London Rowing Club of Canada finished second with an unofficial time of 15:38.9. Princeton, which was disqualified in last year's contest, finished third this year, five and a half seconds behind London Rowing Club...
Harvard's talented lightweight eight finished eighth in 16:04.7 (unofficial) followed by the Charles River Rowing Association in 13th place, and the Alte Achter Rowing Club in 24th...
...thrill of racing and the applause and cheers the crowd hurls at the boats as they go by certainly gives most rowers a vague idea of why they row. For some, rowing revolves around the extremes of love and hate. Phil Nichols, a member of the senior lightweight eight Harvard has entered in this year's lightweight race, put it tersely: "I hate crew, but the Head's great...
Rejected by the University of Wisconsin, he went to the University of Pittsburgh, "because of the coach." But outside of New England, the collegiate lightweight found the competition too stiff. After a dispiriting year, he left for the University of New Hampshire at Durham, only ten miles from Exeter. "I felt that I had not got anywhere," he says. In fact, he had come to the right place. The English faculty included a young Southern novelist named John Yount (Wolf at the Door, The Trapper's Last Shot), who told the restless student with the broad shoulders and burning...