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Harvard University is obsessed with tradition—the H-Y Regatta is practically a sacred rite...
Harvard has long skipped the National Championships in order to train for the Harvard-Yale regatta. This year, the No. 2 Harvard heavyweight rowers will follow No. 10 Yale’s lead and compete at the Intercollegiate Rowing Championships (IRAs) in Camden, N.J., just one week before the 151st annual Harvard-Yale Regatta...
...heavyweight crews have not competed at IRAs since the Championships were held in Cincinnati after the H-Y regatta. However, with the Bulldogs in control of scheduling this year, Yale’s new coach John Pescatore has decided to place H-Y after IRAs so that the Bulldogs can compete for a National Championship...
...tradition of the H-Y Regatta dates back to August 3, 1852, when a group of Yale rowers challenged their Crimson counterparts to a two-mile race on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Harvard won the contest, which became an annual event held on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. The varsity race now covers four miles—the longest crew race in the country...
...race was Harvard’s last before Eastern Sprints, the 15-boat regatta that is typically the Crimson’s most competitive of the spring. Despite its perfect record so far, Harvard is no heavy favorite, especially given that its first varsity pulled off the same undefeated feat last year only to be humbled by Wisconsin at Sprints, where the Crimson has not won the top race since...