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...work-outs will be the most crucial of the year. In this week, you will be seat racing with the other rowers on your team to determine your boat ranking and seat for the competitive season starting in just a few weeks. Two boats will race for three minutes, oarsmen will switch boats, and then the boats will race again. The coach will compare results over the week to get a rough determination of your skill with respect to the team overall. For the first time all year, competition, moderated by the gentlemanly tradition, will divide the team...
Tomorrow is not like any other Sunday. Tomorrow is the Head of the Charles, and for oarsmen, it is the day that makes the fall training worthwhile. Heavy traffic will stir the Charles' waters, as crews from as far as West Germany will race over the course that stretches from the top of the basin to the northern Cambridge shores...
Take the heavyweight crews, for example. Minor things like Commencement do not deter Harvard's rowers from calling it quits, not after all the inertia built up over the course of the year. Men's heavy coach Harry Parker used to forbid senior oarsmen from accepting their diplomas in Cambridge; instead, he would personally hand them out at the team's training camp in Connecticut where the crew would be preparing for the all-important Harvard-Yale regatta...
Well, times have changed some, and Harry reportedly allows his seniors to return to Cambridge to receive their degrees. But some things never change. And a few days after Commencement in June, the undefeated heavy oarsmen topped the Bulldogs and copped the Sexton Cup for the 19th straight time...
Well, times have changed some, and Harry reportedly allows his seniors to return to Cambridge to receive their degrees. But some things never change. And a few days after Commencement in June, the undefeated heavy oarsmen topped the Bulldogs and copped the Sexton Cup for the 19th straight time...