Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooks was not commenting on the races which brought the Harvard Eight a trip to Mexico City in October and a chance to compete for the United States in the world-wide athletic games. He was talking about the strain of coming back after a layoff to the hard work which the whole team faced for many months ahead. The race had been worth it, but the respite wasn...
...only the Olympics which made the race important for the Harvard Crew. They were racing Pennsylvania in the final heat as they knew they would be. And an article in Sports Illustrated, toting the Penn crew as the team to beat after they had won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, was too much for the boys to take...
Harvard does not enter the IRA because it falls on the same day as the traditional Harvard-Yale race, but Penn had entered the race with two new members in their boat, one of whom was a Pan American Games Gold Metal winner. According to the article, Penn was a new team...
...moment of bravado spurred by another Sports Illustrated article which appeared just after the Los Angeles race and still leaned toward Penn, Dave Higgins '69, Bow man on the team said, "If we would have known there would be so much garbage about Four Inches (the margin of victory) we would have beaten them by a foot...
...plans call for more sledding on firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England