Word: ratzeburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...weeks ago, Adam got his chance for revenge. At England's 126-year-old Henley Royal Regatta, the Ascot of crew racing, Vesper knocked off Harvard, the best college crew in the U.S. In the finals, to determine the best crew in the world, it was Ratzeburg against Vesper. Ratzeburg led all the way, finished half a length ahead, set a new Henley record of 6 min. 16 sec. for the one-mile and 550-yd. course...
That evened the score with Vesper, but it didn't settle anything. Taking up an offer from the Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s German branch, Vesper agreed to enter the Ratzeburg Regatta and race once again against the powerful West German crew. Last week, on a windless lake close to the little (pop. 12,123) town of Ratzeburg near the Danish frontier, Karl Adam's husky boys got off with a fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away...