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...Harvard...er...United States...oarsmen quickly announced in force that they had arrived. It was a power play the like of which had not been seen since Normandy. In the West-German Championships, run less than two weeks after Parker had decided his seating alignment for the Olympics, the Americans stunned the international rowing world by winning the regatta in a course record 5:48.58. The Americans soundly defeated the West German runners up by four seconds, while swamping world power New Zealand by two full lengths. The Americans had arrived and, in a little under six minutes actual racing...
...Here at Harvard in lightweight rowing. With Parker and Gladstone in charge, Harvard unquestionably has the best crew program in the East. With such a tradition, it is no accident that eight of the 14 men who make up this year's U.S. Olympic entry are one-time Harvard oarsmen...
...more than a century, the oldest of wives' tales about oarsmen was that they died young-the all-out exertion of crew racing was too much for the overstrained heart. Although that belief was challenged as long ago as 1873 in a study of 294 British oarsmen, the myth has persisted-evidently because fiction is more fun than fact. Now Dr. Curtis Prout of the Harvard University Health Services has made an updated study and reports his findings in the current A.M.A. Journal. Prout selected 172 graduates of Harvard and Yale, all of whom had rowed at least once...
...illness-weakened U.S. crew finished last in the finals at Mexico City and poor American showings in subsequent international regattas brought about the idea of a truly "national" crew, composed of the cream of college and club oarsmen, similar to the boats that European nations haave used with success in the recent past...
...gamble, to be sure, and if the U. S. entry doesn't win a medal at Munich there will be criticism of this new concept and of Parker's selection of oarsmen. The first test will come later this month, when the crew goes to Lucerne. Switzerland for a regatta that will include some of Europe's best eights. A victory there could presage a medal at Munich, and vindication for Parker. Harvard's alumni Olympians and a novel concept in American rowing