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...Crimson baseball varsity will take an offense with a team batting average close to .300 and a pitching staff that has not lived up to its pre-season promise to Boston College today for a Greater Boston League game...
...initial pre-season loss of Dick Baker and Jack Downing was the most serious single blow the team suffered, but in the Yale game, two other key men, Ian Pasley-Tyler and Mike Auer, were also injured...
Harvard's pride, its heavyweight crew, is in deep trouble. Only three men are left from the boat which carried the Crimson colors to victory in the Grand Challenge at Henley two years ago; only four remain from the crew which was the pre-season favorite last year, and which won all of its longer races. (The heavies lost over sprint distances in the Olympic trials; to Cornell in the E.A.R.C. sprints; and to Navy in the Adams Cup race...
Having beaten Tufts in its first game, a Harvard win can put the club in a good position to challenge for the title it has won four of the last six years under coach Norm Shepard. The Huskies were ranked third in a pre-season poll, one place above the Crimson...
Last year proved, if anything, that you can't predict end-of-the-season races on pre-season form. Nevertheless, it is clear that the Crimson is going to be in for tough competition this spring from Cornell and Navy. Both schools were able to field two boats at the Olympic trials and will have a large pool of experienced oarsmen to draw upon...