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...featured varsity race, coach Harry Parker's first boat will be going after its seventh consecutive Stein Trophy. In last year's regatta on the Raritan River at New Brunswick, N.J., the Crimson varsity smashed the Bruins by 18.3 seconds and the Scarlet Knights by 23.2 seconds...
Against Brown and Rutgers, the Crimson will be going after its seventh consecutive Stein Cup victory. Last year on the Raritan River at New Brunswick. N.J. Harvard beat the Bruins by five boat lengths and outdistanced Rutgers by seven. The junior varsity crew rowed to a three length victory but Brown upset the freshman shell by 11 seconds...
Harvard's heavyweight crew trounced Brown and Rutgers in a triangular race Saturday on the Raritan River in New Brunswick. N. J., to win the Stein Cup regatta for the sixth consecutive year. The race was the heavies' first this spring...
...heaviest Harvard crew in history takes to the Raritan River, in New Brunswick, N. J., this afternoon against the lightest competition it will have to face all year-Rutgers and Brown-but you won't find Crimson coach Harry Parker taking the race lightly...
...years the Interstate Sanitation Commission had declared that the waters of Raritan Bay, a sizable hunk of New York Harbor, were fit for swimming, boating and fishing. When the New Republic's new reporter, James Ridgeway, took a look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities...