Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong Wisconsin eight broke away from Radcliffe at the 1000-meter mark and moved on to win by one length, covering the 1500-meter course in 5:36. First-seeded Yale finished second, .7 seconds astern of the Badgers, while the 'Cliffe was third...
Yale moved into the pack at the 500-meter mark, and stayed there until 400 meters remained, when they also pulled away from the heavies...
...cadence was very low until the 1000 meter mark, when we took it up two strokes a minute. I knew we could do it. We worked hard, and just pulled away from them at the end. The went out there to do it, and they really rowed a hard race," coxswain Patti Glovski said...
...varsity went off the line against the Quaker crew it had beaten earlier in the season in San Diego and the host Midshipman eight. The Crimson's start, however, was none too good, and Penn quickly moved out to a half-length lead. By the 500 meter mark, Harvard had settled and was smoothly rowing through the boys from Philly when the first serving of crabs arrived...
Dave Bixby, number two man for the varsity, caught a bad crab around the 800 meter mark, which allowed Penn to creep back to within a half seat of the Crimson. But the boat regrouped, and quickly retook command of the situation. Twenty strokes later, Bixby's oar decided that once was not enough, as it dove back in the traditionally horrendous Severn for a second helping--this time, a boat-stopping crab...