Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the heavyweight crews, for example. Minor things like Commencement do not deter Harvard's rowers from calling it quits, not after all the inertia built up over the course of the year. Men's heavy coach Harry Parker used to forbid senior oarsmen from accepting their diplomas in Cambridge; instead, he would personally hand them out at the team's training camp in Connecticut where the crew would be preparing for the all-important Harvard-Yale regatta...
...downstream mark by 59 seconds over the grueling four-mile course and gained the unofficial national championship. Harvard stormed the finish line in 18:22.4 while Yale pulled in at 18:30.8 in the 115th renewal of the oldest intercollegiate sporting event on the Thames in New London, Conn. Parker Promptly took off for Europe to coach the U.S. National squad...
Take the heavyweight crews, for example. Minor things like Commencement do not deter Harvard's rowers from calling it quits, not after all the inertia built up over the course of the year. Men's heavy coach Harry Parker used to forbid senior oarsmen from accepting their diplomas in Cambridge; instead, he would personally hand them out at the team's training camp in Connecticut where the crew would be preparing for the all-important Harvard-Yale regatta...
...downstream mark by 59 seconds over the grueling four-mile course and gained the unofficial national championship. Harvard stormed the finish line in 18:22.4 while Yale pulled in at 18:30.8 in the 115th renewal of the oldest intercollegiate sporting event on the Thames in New London, Conn. Parker Promptly took off for Europe to coach the U.S. National squad...
...granddaddy of rowing competitions, the Henley regatta on the Thames River in England, the Eliot House crew took part and didn't win the Challenge Cup.Instead, the U.S. Olympic shell--coached by Harry Parker, who else?--triumphed over the New Zealand Olympic squad in the final. In the lightweight division, Harvard's Eastern sprints champion boat fell in the semifinals to Witwatersrand of South Africa...