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Americans had done poorly for several years in international competition and the only solution was to experiment with the method of selecting boats for the Olympics. Parker headed the effort to seek out talented oarsmen for a national team. Formerly, the best college or club crew went to the Games...
Over 40 people showed up at the camp at Dartmouth last June to compete for 16 positions--one eight with cox, one four with cox and two spares. Six weeks later Parker had named his crews and eight former Harvard oarsmen were on their way to the Games...
...Fall of 1970 only two oarsmen from the previous year's freshman crew came back to row. The loss of depth hurt and the Crimson heavies lost the Sprints for the first time in seven years. The next year Harvard had quite a few sophomores and seniors out for crew but only three juniors, two of whom made the varsity...
...last year's varsity and the undefeated J.V. Best of all, last year's freshman crew won going away in every race, including the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley, England, and nearly all of those frosh are back. In fact, it appears that, on paper anyway, this year's oarsmen are the best group in quite a few years and that much talent, along with Parker's ability, has to make the Crimson the crew to beat in the East...
Chosen for his post by the National Association of American Oarsmen (NAAO), Gladstone served in a similar capacity as assistant Olympic crew coach under Harry Parker in 1972. "Steve is a very good coach," Parker said yesterday. "He has a good grasp of the situation and really knows how to make a competitive boat...