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...year that saw Harvard rebound from two early-season losses against Brown and Navy to outrace every other crew that it faced. The Crimson claimed the Eastern Sprints title, the Harvard-Yale Regatta for the first time in five years, the official National Championship in Cincinnati, and the most prestigious of all rowing races, the Henley Grand...
After a dual meet with Northeastern on May 3, the oarsmen will take two weeks to prepare for the Eastern Sprints at Worcester. The Harvard-Yale Regatta--which was the first intercollegiate athletic contest in 1852 and has been an annual occurrence ever since--will be held on June 7 at New London, Conn...
Lightweight Co-Captain Clara Bui feels that the merger will lead to a greater potential for Radcliffe regatta sweeps. She expains that the lightweight eight competition is so thin that the Radcliffe team will probably beat any lightweight eight, despite the fact that the fastest lightweights are in the first lightweight four and JV openweight boats...
...combination of four hours of sleep and a 500 mile drive equaled a 12th place finish (413 points) for the Harvard varsity sailing team at the Trux-Umstead Regatta last weekend...
...belting, both from the sea and from the home team. A 20- knot wind, known locally as the Fremantle Doctor, frequently frosted the 6- ft. ocean swells with a 3-ft. chop described by one Australian sailor as "dirty and short." In all the rough slogging, the assembled regatta lost four 90-ft. masts, a dozen booms and hundreds of square yards of Kevlar sailcloth. In the turmoil, five crewmen were washed overboard and had to be saved. Gary Jobson, of the Chicago-based Heart of America syndicate, declared the roiled-up waters off Fremantle "unsuitable for racing...