Word: penns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only captain Bob Cowin, John Bunker, and John O'Brien return from a Middies squad which fell to the Crimson 6-3 a year ago. Although Navy has lost only to Penn in 12 matches, Harvard's superior depth should produce its seventh straight victory...
...Penn finally beat Harvard. The unpeaceful Quakers put it all together and romped to a length and a half victory over the heavies last Saturday on the wind-blown Schuylkill River. Navy came in third in the 2000-meter Adams Cup Race (a contest Harvard hadn't lost in the last five years...
What hurts so much is the way it all happened. If the race had been close, then it might have been the "upset" that some expected. And if that was the case, then Penn ws only gaining a revenge that it has been brooding after since Harvard edged the Quakers by four inches in last summer's Olympic Trials...
...Penn won by a shocking length and a half, and what happened raises the question of Harvard's chances in the Eastern Sprints this Saturday in Worcester...
...luck of the draw, Penn got the up-front position in the staggered start. At the gun, the Quakers came off at 39 strokes per minute to take a two seat lead in the first five pulls. The much higher-stroking Crimson got away at about...