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Probably the most gruelling of the traditionalist Harvard sports originates down at and on the Charles River. Harvard crew is a myth in itself, and, for the dedicated and hard-working rower, it can be rewarding. If you want to become a first-rate oarsman, and you have a touch of masochism in you that needs to be fulfilled, the Harvard crew program is what you need. In Harry Parker and Steve Gladstone (with the heavyweight and lightweight squads, respectively) you will encounter two of the finest--if not the finest--crew coaches in the country. Parker...
Despite the prospects for glory, the Harvard crew program is a year-round operation, and the oarsman who participates can expect nine full months of rowing. It's a brutal trip and anyone who has seen the Charles in late November or early March, just before and just after the river is iced in, will know that it is no fun to row at that time of year. But at Harvard people row as long as there is open water, and when there no longer is any open water they play with ergometers, or they play in the tanks...
...Prout of the Harvard University Health Services has made an updated study and reports his findings in the current A.M.A. Journal. Prout selected 172 graduates of Harvard and Yale, all of whom had rowed at least once in the four-mile varsity race between 1882 and 1902; for each oarsman, a classmate was picked at random for comparison. Prout agrees that oarsmen seem to develop slow-beating "athlete's heart." But the oarsmen lived, on the average, at least six years longer. The 90 Harvard crewmen lived to an average age of 67.79 years, as against 61.54 for their...
...Really, though, it wouldn't have been practical for Harry to resort to nepotism," says one prominent Eastern freshman coach. "His reputation, as well as the concept of a national team, will be at stake this summer. It just wouldn't make sense for him to ignore a star oarsman from another club or college in favor of his own men. He's interested in putting together the fastest boat possible. If he has to use six Harvard men to do to, that's a tribute to the kind of a coaching job he's done at Cambridge...
Parker will also have a portable closed-circuit video tape system available for a more visual appraisal of an oarsman's style. In all, one gets the impression that with ergometers, instant replay and Parker's practiced eye, the eventual American entries should be as close to an impartial, representative group as one could wish...