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Several other Harvard oarsmen competed at the Regatta in boats unaffiliated with the Crimson, including rising senior Breffny Morgan in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls’ Challenge Cup, and graduates Malcolm Howard ‘05 and Kip McDaniel ‘04 in the Canadian eight and four, respectively...
This set the scene for the third race of the season at Lake Carnegie, N.J., against MIT and last year’s national champions, Princeton, for the Compton Cup. The Tigers, having lost many of their best oarsmen to graduation, were not much of a match this time around, as Princeton and MIT both succumbed to another clean sweep by the Crimson’s boats. The varsity race was tight at first, with Harvard lagging behind Princeton for much of the course. But the Crimson recovered to win by almost a length...
...boats focused more on their speed off the line, which resulted in wins by the varsity, second varsity, varsity four, and second freshman boats. The freshman eight was not far behind the winning Big Green oarsmen, only 1.8 seconds away from a victory and a clean sweep of the day’s races...
...team’s 2007 performance clears its name of the slight stain left by last year’s season—the only time in the last five years that the heavyweights haven’t won Sprints despite many returning varsity oarsmen...
...four-and-a-quarter-mile stretch of river is the second-longest competitive course in the world, a distance that many oarsmen from U.S. colleges are not used to, compared with the 2K races that are most common here...