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Brown brings a significant size advantage to today's race, as the Crimson average only 6-ft.-2-in. and 185-lbs., small by coach Harry Parker's usual standards. The Bruin's pre-season roster showed four of the varsity boat averaging 6-ft.-4-in. or more. Additionally, Brown has the advantage of experience, with seven of the 1978 eight returning...
This year, the awesome Princeton Tigers have once more emerged as a unanimous pre-season pick to win, but Harvard and Yale have outside chances...
Freshman Charlotte Worsley will start at goalie today. Worsley, an offensive player in high school, withstood stiff competition in the pre-season, but proved herself a tough-thinking player...
Unlike most sports, crew trains all year for a single season in the spring. Throughout those 300 hours of fall and winter practice, each oarsman is sustained only by the distant image of racing season. As a result, those long hours of pre-season rowing--in a racing shell, in an indoor rowing tank, on an "unpleasant machine" called the ergometer--develops in each oarsman a formidable mental drive that will be focussed, months later, into a six-minute race...
...easily lose the race for everybody." A teammate adds, "You really feel like one machine--your oars are going in together, coming out together, you rest together." The sense of esprit de corps, if not total unity, is also naturally heightened over the long course of pre-season training and in-race competition. "When you're sweating and toiling with somebody six days out of the week, nine months out of the year, it's easy to become very close friends," said one oarsman...