Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn should field its best boat ever this Spring, making it even harder for the Crimson to remain on top. The six returning oarsmen from the Quakers' first boat will be supported by members of last year's undefeated freshman team...
...Four oarsmen are returning from last year's boat, including captain and strokeman Dave Harmon, Dick Moore, Rod Peterson, and Kim Kiley. Seven of the eight members of last year's undefeated freshman crew have returned and, along with several junior varsity rowers, are now competing for the four available seats...
...three, and Harvard really can't be better than the Quakers unless it wins the Heps. "Our season begins now." Crimson captain Keith Colburn said last week. Last spring. Penn beat the Harvard heavyweight crew in a three-way race, but in the Eastern Sprints, the Crimson oarsmen reestablished themselves as the best at least when compared to the Quakers. There is a possibility that roles could be reversed this fall...
...total number of points that each team gets is computed according to a complicated system which takes into account the number of oarsmen who compete from each team in each event and the positions in which the teams' shells finish...
More than 75 oarsmen entered the competition, ?? of them from Harvard. The race itself is modeled after an English style of racing. Because most English rivers (and the Charles) are too narrow for all the entrants in each event to begin at the same time, the rowers start at ten-second intervals and race against the clock...