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...Eliot glided to a two-and-a-half length victory in the 1963 non-race. The sophisticated Italian rig they used was designed with both the number four and the number five man rowing starboard, thus reducing the torque in the middle of the boat. Germany's world-champion Ratzeburg crew used the same type of shell...
Still, the road to a medal of any sort will be a tortuous one. Since 1960, when West Germany's Ratzeburg crew snapped a 40-year American monopoly on the Olympic eight-oared title, the superiority of the European training programs, bolstered by improvements in equipment and rigging concepts, have resulted in consistent disappointment for American eights in international races. And despite an eagerness on the part of several U. S. rowing coaches to adopt new European methods, the gulf appears to be widening, if anything...
...difficult to tell exactly who will be strong in Mexico City during the October games. But Harvard Heavyweight Coach Harry Parker expects West Germany's Ratzeburg Boat Club, famous for its extremely high stroking cadence to be dangerous, along with last sumer's international champion from New Zealand. Parker also rated East Germany and Russia as very tough...
...Harvard eight can win at the Pan Am trials, there is more than a good chance that it will triumph at the Winnipeg games. At the North American Championships, European competition will be entering. Strongest rivals there will be the high-stroking Ratzeburg Boat Club, from West Germany, and an East German crew...
...wizard, the crew to beat at Worcester was Harvard - although Coach Harry Parker was as surprised at that as anyone. Parker had lost seven out of the nine men (including the cox) who rowed the Crimson to seven straight victories last year before losing to Germany's Ratzeburg eight in England's Henley Regatta. This year Harvard's largely sophomore crew was unbeaten in three starts. Still, Parker complained, "My boys need time to develop. We have a long...