Word: racing
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After the Yale Race, the Harvard Senior Varsity will choose four of its oarsmen to enter the four-with-cox class at the Olympic trials. Stiff competition can be expected from the so called Olympic Development Clinics located at M.I.T. in the East, and Seattle, Wash., in the West. Sterner challenges, however, will probably grow out of the losing eights, which will split up to try to take the four-with-cox berth...
After losing to Vesper in 1964, Harvard split its varsity and won the right to represent the U.S. at Tokyo in this class. Harvard won the consolation race among the "four-with," which did not make it to the Tokyo finals...
...main difficulty experienced by the Crimson varsity heavyweights this year has been a slow start. Harvard literally has never been able to jump its rivals off the starting line in any race this spring...
...Crimson fell behind by as much as three-quarters of a length in all contests except the Worcester sprints, and only began to come back after a quarter of the race was over. This recurring pattern caused concern. After the Adams Cup Race, Harvard began using a lower-cadence start, which seems to work better...
...Lightweights also entered the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, June 8. Competition centered on the Penn Junior Varsity Heavyweights, which had been only two-tenths of a second back of their varsity in the three-boat race with Vesper. Cornell and Penn, the other two leightweight powerhouses in the East, also sent their varsities...