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...Boston. When a crew like ours forces itself into the winner's circle to grab a taste of victory for the first time in history--that's the result. That's what happens. And that's where I come in. My name is Coffey. I carry an oar. There's no way we can lose...
...screamed the middle-aged man from one of the bridges over Boston's Charles River. "Get those broads off the water!" The young women, smoothly stroking an eight-oar shell down the waterway once considered the private domain of the hallowed Harvard crew, are used to such abuse. Ever since Radcliffe recently organized its first rowing team, the oarswomen have had to endure sniggering as well as a more serious problem: lack of financial support. No matter. Women's rowing has not only been launched as a national sport, but it is scudding along at an astonishing pace...
...remaining flotsom was awarded many different prizes for behavior and looks. The Most Ostentatious award went to Eliot House's The Henry Elkins, designed as an oar-powered Mississippi steam boat. The Most Obscene and Most Polluted Crew awards went to the boat from Adams with a large banana on the sail and a bellicose crew that threw the peels at the other boats...
...oarsmen must suffer; not only do they work harder and longer at getting in condition and perfecting their technique than 90 per cent of all other athletes, but they must also put up with low attendance at their races and with anonymity--no glory for the guy pulling an oar...
...Everyone was pretty tired after the last two weeks' practice," bow oar Anne Robinson said yesterday. "If we didn't win this one we were all ready...