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Harvard's heavyweight crew recovered from a poor start Sunday to gain a convincing victory over international competition in the first of two races in the Nile Festival Regatta...
...race, held at Luxor, 420 miles south of Cairo, will be followed by a second at Cairo today. Harvard, the winner of the regatta last year, will face the same British and American crews plus the Cairo Police and at least one Egyptian university eight...
This is the record year that Harvard has been invited by the Egyptian government to row against teams from Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, the University of Cairo and the Cairo Police Rowing Club. Last year the Crimson swept the Nile regatta, winning races at Luxor and Cairo...
...sailed consistently throughout the regatta and never lost first place...
...total of 11 teams participated in the event which involved only three races for each boat, the minimum number allowed to make a regatta official...