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...first time since 1961, the host Midshipmen are a real threat to upset one if not both of the major powers. Navy had an excellent plebe (freshman) crew last year, which won the Eastern Sprint Championships. This year coach Carl Ullrich has incorporated four of these oarsmen into his varsity boat and five into his second varsity (J.V.) eight...
...past few years, the mention of Ted Nash has struck pain into the blistered calluses of oarsmen up and down the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The former flight instructor, juvenile judge of traffic, guerrilla warfare teacher and resident lifeguard on the Schuylkill the recently saved two people from drowning there is as much a legend around Penn as Parker is at Harvard...
Since he took over the head coaching job from Joe Burk last year, Nash has been subjected to much criticism from crew enthusiasts and sometimes his own oarsmen for his long and hard training methods. At the start of this year, in backlash to this Marine-style approach, two of Nash's premier rowers, Olympians Luther Jones and Rick Crooker, decided it might be healthier not to compete...
Scoggins did well as an oarsmen until his academic laxness caught up with his three terms later. Finally, this Fall, he decided that he should return. "It sounded like sort of a weird idea." Scoggins said Thursday night in explaining it. "And I still had some fantasies about how great I was. I'm probably still the meanest man in Cambridge...
Harvard's lightweight oarsmen will face their most significant challenge of the young season this morning as they take on M.I.T. and Dartmouth on the Charles...