Word: nash
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Parker's concern stems not so much from fraternal sympathy for Quaker coach Ted Nash as from the fact that the seeding now puts Penn in the same heat with Harvard, not the most desirable morning rival. Were the Quakers seeded either second or third, Harvard's major trial heat opponent would have been Northeastern, with Princeton, Yale and Boston University added for savage amusement. Definitely a less worrisome group...
Each of the three coaches involved--Penn's Ted Nash, Navy's Carl Ullrich and Harvard's Harry Parker--would prefer not having his boat selected as the favorite, and with good reason. Only once in the last four years has the favored crew won the Cup. In fact, last May the Navy eight that edged Harvard by half a length was the least seriously regarded of any of the three entrants...
...comparative races against mutual opponents mean anything Ullrich and Nash feel they do, Parker disagreed, the Crimson will go to the stake boats a slight choice to win the race for the 19th time since...
...spring. Navy dumped the Tigers by 2 1/2 lengths on the Seven River in early April. Penn edged them by half a length a week later in the Childs Cup race, and Harvard left Princeton four and a half lengths astern last Saturday on the Charles. On that basis, Nash, Ullrich and Princeton coach Pete Sparhawk have chosen the Crimson as the crew to beat...
Penn Coach Ted Nash recently said, "the Adams Cup brews a strange tea--it has a charisma all its own." Jim Maroney may never sample...