Word: meters
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Penn, which gave the Crimson their first defeat of the year last Saturday by a half-length margin, has worked this year primarily at the 2000-meter sprint distance, and could be the eight to upset Cornell. But Parker is not pessimistic. "We're right on the brink of hitting a really good speed," said Parker, and if the heavyweights do hit it, anything could happen...
...content with their victory over Yale and Princeton last Saturday, the varsity oarsmen have shown further improvement this week, and yesterday's time trial over the 2000-meter course was quite a bit faster than Thursday's. "We'll be fighting long odds to beat M.I.T.," said Cabot, "but we're definitely the dark horse Saturday...
PHILADELPHIA, May 11--West Germany's Ratzeburg rowing club, racing as usual with its high but incredibly smooth broke, swept over the Schuylkill's 2000-meter course in 5:53.8 this afternoon, beating Penn by about a length and Harvard by a length and a half. By finishing second, Penn became the first college crew to defeat Harvard this year...
...varsity lightweight crew successfully defended the Goldthwait Cup for an unprecedented sixth year in a row against Princeton and Yale Saturday with a low-stroked, three-quarter length victory on the 2000-meter Charles River sprint course...
...high-stroking German crew will be a definite favorite. Not only are its marsmen older than the Crimson's, but they are far more experienced, particularly over the 2000 meter course, which they have rowed 40 or 50 times. No Harvard marsman has raced the distance more than four times...