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...outpulling Rutgers and Brown by 5 lengths. A week later, on Princeton's choppy Lake Carnegie, the Cantabs knocked an incredible 20.8 sec. from the Compton Cup 1¾-mile record, swamping M.I.T. by 7 lengths and Princeton 9½ lengths. In the 1¾-mile Adams Cup regatta on Annapolis' Severn River, they finished 5½ lengths ahead of Navy and 9½ lengths in front of Pennsylvania. The 2,000-meter Eastern Sprints on Worcester's Lake Quinsigamond were a little closer: Harvard walloped undefeated Cornell by 2½ lengths-widest margin in the Sprint...
...knows what's going on. He starred on Pennsylvania's varsity from 1955 to '57, then shifted to single sculls and in 1959 won the National championship and the Pan American Games gold medal, went all the way to the finals of Britain's Henley regatta before losing. A few months later, Harvard offered him a job coaching its frosh, moved him up to the varsity in 1963 when Head Coach Harvey Love died. "This sport tends to be conservative," says Parker. "I'm inclined to try things out to see what works best...
...combination race, which will be run over the two-mile course Friday afternoon rather than on Saturday with the rest of the regatta, presents the second most serious challenge to the Crimson. Yale has been taking this race very seriously, and has had the combies working out with their own coach--a departure from the custom of doubling up combies and freshmen...
...most eyes will be on the Harvard eight, prohibitive favorites in the 100th renewal of the Harvard-Yale regatta, America's oldest college sports rivalry...
...Swiss shell is being shipped to England for use at the Grand Challenge Regatta at Henley, perhaps an indication of coach Harry Parker's confidence about the Yale race...