Word: lightweights
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...Harvard lightweight rowers Patrick Haas, Michael Kummer, and Marc Luff were part of the bunch that crossed the threshold of the boathouse in Newport, Kentucky, the sacred ground of the CJRC, and never turned around...
...Current lightweight captain and Harvard senior Haas was a swimmer. Fellow senior Kummer was a hayseed from northern Kentucky looking for a sport to call his own. Sophomore Luff hailed from Batesville, Indiana, went to St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, and was kept out of Ohio sports by a law prohibiting out-of-state residents from participating in school athletic programs...
...Black and White began the weekend looking relatively strong, finishing Saturday’s lightweight eight heat in second place with a time of 8:01.6. This performance was bested only by the rival Tigers, which won the heat with a time of 7:51.8, arriving at the finish nearly 10 seconds before Radcliffe, leaving the Black and White with a deficit to overcome by Sunday...
...Radcliffe lightweight four had a somewhat less dramatic Sunday, finding itself out of action after finishing second-to-last in their qualifying heat the day before. The Black and White finished well out of the top two, 1:15.02 behind the first-place Princeton ‘A’ boat and about 30 seconds behind the Georgetown ‘A’ vessel, and did not receive a berth in the grand finals. Radcliffe missed making the petite finals by a little less than six seconds...
...Black and White also failed to contend in the novice eight, placing third out of six teams in the Saturday heat. The Tigers would eventually go on to win both the lightweight four and novice eight finals on Sunday...