Word: oarsmen
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Love has the JV's and last year's freshmen to choose from, but the freshmen oarsmen rowing at positions five and six have not returned this year, thus also adding to Love's losses...
Varsity Heavyweight Crew Coach Harvey Love has five oarsmen returning from the boat that beat Yale badly last year, but among those missing is former stroke and Captain Perry Boyden, whom Love considers "one of the greatest strokes in Harvard history and in American rowing...
Looking at the season as a whole, Love said, "I recognize that we have lost some valuable people, but we have a lot of potential. I remain optimistic that we will continue a respectable crew." He then added, "But it mostly depends on the oarsmen themselves...
...Crimson will abandon its shortlived experiment with its captain, senior Perry Boyden, at number six. Boyden will be back in the stroke, three new oarsmen will be added to the lineup, and no team members will sit in the same positions as last week. Apparently Coach Harvey Love wasn't too happy with the finish behind both Rutgers and Cornell last week in Ithaca...
Harvard rowed the race at a much higher stroke than Cornell. It fell behind during the first quarter mile as the oarsmen had difficulty in keeping together behind the high stroke start. Although the crew seemed to hold its own during the middle half-mile of the race it never quite recovered from its shaky start. The tall Big Red crew, rowing with a longer lower stroke than the Crimson, expended less effort than the varsity...