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Navy is seeded number one in the JV division on the basis of an early season win over the Crimson, despite the fact that Princeton has convincingly outrowed the Midshipmen, and Harvard's win against the Tigers last weekend...
...sinking of the Burk marred an otherwise perfect Harvard day. After a fighting Crimson third varsity held off Navy for an .8 second victory in the afternoon's first race. Ted Washburn's freshman boat breezed to an easy three-length win over the Midshipmen, leaving Penn seven lengths astern...
...rowing its first race since winning the IRA championship last June, actually led Navy after 500 meters, and came within a quarter of a length of winning. It was not the most impressive margin of victory that could have been desired, but then, the Midshipmen have customarily stroked only as hard as they had to to win this season...
...haven't changed much across the river. Boston University still wears new shirts every Saturday. But down at Annapolis, Carl Ullrich has Charles (Chuck) Munns and a few of his friends rowing for him now, and the only bills he gets are from the Blue and Gold laundry. The Midshipmen tend to hang on to their shirts a little longer than most people...
...hasn't always been this way, of course. After "The Admirals" won three consecutive Adams Cup and Eastern Sprint championships, plus a gold medal at the 1952 Olympics, Navy experienced some relatively lean years. Except for an inspired 1961 group, the Midshipmen hadn't won either title again until last May, and sometimes fell so far behind in Adams Cup races that a man needed binoculars to find them...