Word: olrich
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...rowers competing in 700 boats. The racing begins at 9:30 a.m. and runs until the conclusion of the last event, which is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. The course starts at the Boston University boathouse and runs three miles upstream past Harvard to the WBZ tower. Jerry Olrich, a long-time race veteran, recommends the Weeks Bridge for optimum viewing as it is the approximate half-way point in the race...
Another former Olympic racing team, the '72 silver-medalist eight, will also be competing in its eleventh consecutive Head. The team has vowed to keep coming back until they finish last. They will race as the Alte Achter (German for "old eight") Boat Club. Olrich suggests that they return each year, "for love more than anything else...
...reasons there aren't more crews from Europe in the race, according to Jerry Olrich, an official at the Cambridge Boat Club, is that rowing is still not a fall sport in Europe. But, Ulrich continued, rowing wasn't considered a fall sport in the United States until the Head of the Charles...
...idea, Olrich said, was "to take up the slack on racing in the fall." In the first Head of the Charles--the first head race in the country--100 boats took part. At first, Olrich said, the Ivy League refused to allow rowers to participate, afraid it would set a dangerous precedent for off-season competition. And so, ever resourceful, Harvard oarsmen formed independent rowing clubs (usually associated with their Houses, Olrich said) to enter boats in the Head. The league's athletic directors relented, and so rowers can now represent Harvard and Radcliffe...
...Olrich said the regatta committee had to turn away 300 applications for spots in this year's regatta. One 71-year-old skuller from Oakland, Calif., Olrich said, has flown to Cambridge in the hope that someone in the masters' singles race will have to withdraw, leaving him a place in the race. Ulrich added that there were already three others waiting for that same spot should it open...