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...fewer than seven of the 14 1968 Olympians will be going to Munich next month, and six of them rowed for Harvard's varsity at one time or another. Which seems to indicate that Harvard has had the best oarsmen in the nation all along, just as it did in 1968, when the Crimson varsity edged Pennsylvania in a showdown at Long Beach to earn a ticket to Mexico. Or that Parker, who has been varsity coach at Cambridge for a decade, is biased in favor of his own followers, which is what a few rival coaches are muttering...
...fact, several of the Harvard oarsmen thought that Parker had bent over backwards to avoid favoring them in the selection process...
Actually, the Olympic roster is rather heavily studded with East Coast oarsmen--Chad Rudolph and Chuck Ruthford, who will not row in the eight, are the only men from West of the Mississippi River. Both rowed for Washington, a poreanial national rowing power...
...Frits '69 and Bill '71 Hobbs are at 5 and 6, Terry, a 175-pound metronome will stroke, and Paul Hoffman '69, who enraged stolid U.S. Olympic officials with his support of the black athlete protest in 1968, will be coxswain. Two other Harvard oarsmen, lightweight stroke Tony Brooks and heavyweight captain Dave Sawyier, will go to Munich either as members of the four-with-cox or as spares...
...present selection process that Frailey argued for, and the U. S. Olympic Committee decided upon, might work. Parker has the best oarsmen in America assembled at Hanover, and has three months to work with them. If the project fails though, if the U. S. eight loses as badly as it did in 1968, the new process and its advocates will undoubtedly be second-guessed until...