Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson continued to gain on Princeton, working for one seat at a time, and by the 1400-meter mark. Harvard was sitting pretty with a lead of one length. But although the race was held on the Tigers' home course, the Princeton crew was not about to hospitably hand the Crimson its second win of the season...
...With 500 meters to go, the Tigers began a premature sprint, which brought them to within three seats of Harvard with about 200 meters left. Yet, the prolonged high cadence took its toll in the last 20 strokes, when the exhausted Tigers slipped back a few seats to finish 1.2 seconds behind Harvard, which crossed the 2000-meter mark...
...meet began with the arduous 10,000 meter run, and while freshman Bruce Weber knocked 20 seconds off his previous best time he couldn't make the top five finishers. Classmate Kim Stephens, representing Harvard's best hope for a first in the 400 meter hurdles, pulled a hamstring in Tuesday's practice and, after his four-medal performance last weekend in the GBCs, had to watch lamely from the sidelines...
...freak accident startled runners and fans alike in the 200-meter run. Harvard's Marc Chapus sprung out of the blocks and in the same motion dislocated his left shoulder. Without slackening his pace, the gutsy Chapus continued to run with dangling arm until the shoulder snapped back into place coming into the stretch, and Chapus cruised home to finish in fifth place...
Another unforeseen calamity proved the decision of veterans Adam Dixon and Thad McNulty to "double" their events, and run in both the 800 meter and 1500 meter races. The heat took its toll, and after running the qualifying heats, neither McNulty nor Dixon could finish...