Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard thrashed Navy by about six lengths only one week after Princeton had squeaked by the Midshipmen with a onelength victory. Yale has beaten M. I. T. by a length and Rutgers by three, but Harvard has downed M. I. T. by four, and Rutgers by seven...
Navy leads the league but the Midshipmen still must play Princeton, Dartmouth, and Harvard away from home. Dartmouth only one game off the leading pace, seems to have the easiest schedule and will play all of its games in Hanover...
...Harvard can conceivably pass Princeton. Penn, and Brown this weekend if it sweeps its three-game series, and with a doubleheader with Navy just one week away. the Crimson has an excellent chance of dumping the Midshipmen. But in order to catch Dartmouth. Harvard cannot afford to drop another contest...
Choppy water and a 12-knot headwind prevented the lights from jumping off to their usually great start, but by the 500-meter mark Harvard had built a one-length lead over the Midshipmen...
Navy, on the other hand, has looked unimpressive so far this year. The Midshipmen have edged a weak Georgetown crew and lost by 5 seconds to Princeton. Princeton-which only beat Rutgers by four seconds-is apparently not even on a par with Harvard. The Crimson overwhelmed Rutgers by more than twenty seconds two weeks...