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...rare in any sport that top competitors get to face each other in the regular season just weeks before they would see each other in championship action. On the collegiate men’s lightweight rowing scene, though, the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton regular season regatta presents exactly this opportunity...
Last Saturday morning in Princeton, N.J., three of the fastest crews in the nation—the No. 1 Princeton Tigers, No. 2 Harvard Crimson, and No. 4 Yale Bulldogs—met in perfect weather conditions to test the rankings and see each other’s speed prior to Eastern Sprints and the IRA Championships. In the first of three consecutive contests between the crews, the Crimson (10-0) walked away as the Vogel Cup team champions, having earned the most points overall...
...race progressed, Yale fell off the pace, and we continued to trail Princeton,” said sophomore stroke Tim Moore. “But then in the third 500 [meters], our base started pushing us up on them, and then with about 400 to go we were even...
...Harvard varsity persistently chipped away at the Tigers’ advantage down the entire course, letting its strong base rhythm push the boat’s bow-ball back into Princeton...
...Harvard second varsity eight entered Saturday’s competition as the top-ranked crew in its category. From the very start, though, it fell behind the pace of the pack and finished down on both Princeton and second-place Yale...