Word: oarsmen
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Over the years the Crimson varsity crew has won 53 races and the Yale Varsity 47. The undefeated Harvard oarsmen beat Yale last year by more than 10 lengths, and the Crimson is favored to win again this year -- but maybe not by such a whopping margin...
...boat will be composed of the same oarsmen that won the Eastern Sprints Championship last month at Worcester. But Yale Coach Jim Ratschmidt has juggled his manpower considerably since arriving at Gales Ferry, Conn., in early June; three new men have been moved into his Varsity boat. The Elis placed third in the Eastern Sprints...
While an undergraduate at M.I.T., he rowed in the varsity heavyweight boat for three years, at positions three, four, and five. In 1963 he combined with three Syracuse oarsmen to win the national four-with-cox championship; in the 1964 Olympic trials he rowed with the same group and finished second to Harvard's boat...
...least not at the University of Pennsylvania. John McGinn, an old Penn coxswain and now a scientist in General Electric's laboratories at Valley Forge, Pa., has invented an electronic gizmo that enables Penn Coach Joseph Burk to tell at a glance in practice which of his oarsmen are pulling their weight - and which aren't. Attached to the oarlocks, miniature dynamometers measure the pull on each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting 280 Ibs. of pressure. Three means...
Holding onto their lead, Harvard's oarsmen crossed the finish line in 6:20.8. the second fastest time of the day. Behind the Crimson came Brown, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Penn...