Word: penns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...save hardened English rowing enthusiasts, had paid attention to Leander even though it had taken the Thames Cup with relative ease last July. It was a mistake both Harvard and Penn were to discover later. The Britishers had quietly brushed off early-round competition and early Friday unceremoniously dumped the Isis Boat Club to gain the semifinals...
Several hours later, after Penn had beaten MIT to reach the finals, Leander successfully defended that title against Penn. It defended it powerfully, driving to an early lead. It defended it fiercely, repeatedly holding off a Penn cadence that climbed from 35 to 38 to 41 in a brutal effort to make up an alarming deficit. And it defended it convincingly, mercilessly drubbing a Penn freshman boat that outweighed Leander by ten pounds per man, winning by a whopping three lengths over the mile and five-sixteenths course...
...Penn's rowing program had been successful last spring. The Quakers took varsity and freshman titles at the IRA championships and had won the freshman crown at the Eastern Sprints. It is an ambitious program, designed to break the grip Harvard has had on the national title and bring it to Philadelphia. As a reward, and primarily as a final test, Penn sent their excellent varsity heavies, a good four-with-coxswain, and their undefeated freshman heavies to Henley. The experiment failed Badly...
...unheralded Yale four dumped Penn in the first round. The freshman boat was humiliated by Leander. And in the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup, Henley's premier event, the Quaker varsity found that there is not one crew that it cannot beat, but at least two. Einheit Dresden, a crack East German crew, practiced entirely on their home rivers in preparation for Henley...
...Germans came to England unseen, unknown, and Saturday afternoon beat down every challenge the mammoth Penn varsity threw at them. Penn tried a fast start, a crippling high stroke, and fierce power to try to overtake the Germans. All three methods were about the three-quarters of a length inadequate. The Grand Challenge Cup went back to East Germany, where it has been for four of the past five years...