Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's senior-laden sailing team has yet to have a day of practice but it came up with a second and a fifth in two major events over the vacation and hosted an experimental coed regatta...
...flurry caused in collegiate circles by the action of Harvard and Yale in seceding from the Rowing Association has now nearly subsided. Giving as reasons want of rivalry, unfair treatment, and general dissatisfaction, our two most influential colleges have withdrawn from the regatta; Yale's departure to be effected this year, and Harvard to appear but once more in the arena of that contest which is so rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon...
...regatta with 161 points to 183 for U. R. I. and 185 for Harvard. The other New England representative, Yale, was sixth with 260 points...
Teams from the New England and Middle Atlantic areas are chosen for this regatta on the basis of their performance in the Fall championship in their area. However the event will always he held at a Middle Atlantic school, because of the brutal weather conditions in New England in late November...
...home advantage is just too great, as last weekend shows," coach Mike Horn said. "Conditions in the Middle Atlantic take New England sailors by surprise. This is the first year this regatta has been held and it may be the last," he added...