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What Sports Illustrated staffer Hugh Whall wrote in a fit of pique last year after Harvard's heavyweight crew refused once again to race in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta in favor of its four-mile event with Yale has been the sentiment of a number of crew writers and followers ever since Pennsylvania has become a threat to Harvard's dominance of the American college rowing scene...
...Penn in a winner-take-all showdown at Syracuse, and bothered by the Crimson's unshakable nonchalance about a formally recognized national champion. Harvard's critics have expressed their discontent in such various methods as Whall's highly emotional pieces and the NCAA's decision to recognize the I.R.A. regatta as an officially-sanctioned national championship...
First, with the exception of such Western crews as California, Stanford and Washington, the Syracuse regatta is almost an exact duplicate of the Eastern Sprint event. The same EARC boats that Harvard has defeated at Worcester for the past seven years, including Penn, enter the I.R.A., and the Crimson feels that it is unnecessary to have to prove its superiority again if there is something more attractive to do on the same...
...furor over Harvard's I.R.A. boycott is fairly recent, actually. As late as 1965, when Harvard's dominance was unquestionable, Sports Illustrated considered the Syracuse regatta little more than a runner-up event, and that year, after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside. Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson...
...Harvard varsity sailing team came from behind to win the New England States Intersectional Regatta last weekend at Tufts, but in the process it had to sacrifice the Ivy League Championships, held the same days at Cornell...