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...oarsmen's time tied the course record set by Pennsylvania five years ago, but several rowers did not feel completely satisfied by the performance...
Winning was not the only thing for the Harvard lights this weekend at Hanover, N.H. Perfection was their goal. That is why there were a lot of dissatisfied oarsmen, especially the varsity eight, despite returning with the Biglin Bowl for the 15th straight year after a clean sweep of Dartmouth...
...from the varsity oarsmen, there was a lot of grumbling heard. "People in that boat are very self-critical," stroke Jeff Brown said yesterday. He added that most of the varsity rowers "have gotten through not being stars," so they do not expect things to come easy...
Harvard's junior varsity and frosh oarsmen dimmed any Bruin hopes of a renaissance with wins in Saturday's preliminaries. The J.V. squeaked by, 6:05.7 to 6:06.8; but Ted Washburn's rookies, a traditionally invincible octet, wasted Brown's version of Yardlings...
Junior Charlie Altekruse, who anchors The Engine Room, the middle section of the varsity boat that guns the oarsmen, adds, "I expect they'll be hanging in there. They always row well against us." But never well enough...