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Where they were was in the inside of a course with a wicked bend at the 600-meter mark. Going from a crosswind to a tailwind after the curve, the Crimson oarsmen found themselves a length behind a host Penn squad and far behind the Midshipmen...
...past the Quaker eight but could never make up the open water Navy had acumulated by the end of the 2000-meter course. The Crimson's record falls to 1-3, not familiar figures for any Harvard heavyweight boat, and especially not for this one--only two of the oarsmen are seniors, returned from last years' national championship eight, and four of them are sophomores, up from the freshman eight that won at Henley last year...
...only two Harvard varsity oarsmen and their coxswain remember that contest--all the others have graduated and Beall fields five juniors in the first eight...
Facing backwards, looking over the part of the course they've already completed, the Crimson oarsmen have yet not to see the competition behind them--they've cranked past Dartsmouth, MIT, the Coast Guard Academy, and, as of this weekend, Navy...
Despite fatigue from rowing two races in as many days, travelling to New London, and rowing on a choppier more open course than the Charles the oarsmen hung together for victories in which they corrected Saturday's flaws...