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Close to 300,000 spectators will descend on Cambridge starting today, as students and University officials prepare for the 39th annual Head of the Charles Regatta...
...actual races begin early Saturday afternoon, with both qualifying and single heat events scheduled. The Regatta has been a two-day affair since 1996 when high winds spoiled what was then a one-day showdown...
Last year’s event saw a pair of freak accidents disrupt an otherwise routine regatta. One man was sent to the hospital when eight-person shell hit him, penetrating his torso. In another incident, in 1996, boats from George Washington University and Brown University collided at full speed...
Neither summer layoffs nor the departures of key seniors were enough to slow the Harvard and Radcliffe heavyweight crew teams, which returned to their winning ways on Sunday afternoon with victories in the Stonehurst Capital Invitational Regatta, co-hosted by the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology on the Genesee River...
Both squads entered the regatta as defending champions, the Crimson having won three straight titles and the Black and White four...