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...Harvard, the Pan-Am championships proved a test of its sturdiness against tough international competition. Only one Crimson rower is graduating from the team, and the others will definitely have an eye out for the Olympic Trials next year if they win convincingly next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavyweight Crew Leaves For Pan-American Finals | 7/18/1967 | See Source »

...Parker says: "What I look for is somebody with reasonable size and a very real interest in athletics." His favorite way of testing that interest is with drills like "stadiums"-races up and down the steps of the Harvard stadium, run at the rate of 50 times per rower per day. "Most of the things around here are boring as hell," grunted Stroke Ian Gardiner last week, as he hefted a 100-lb. weight over his head for the 19th time. "Except for the winning, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rowing: Parker's Pachyderms | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...freshman heavyweight race, Harvard bowed to the rower of Pennsylvania. Off the start at 43, the Crimson settled to a smooth 34 and led the race until its closing moments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavyweights Triumph in Sprints As Harvard Takes 4 of 6 Races | 5/16/1966 | See Source »

Donald M. Felt '49 has resigned as Assistant Director of Athletics, effective June 30. The former rower on the Crimson varsity crew was a member of the Department of Athletics administration for nine years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Felt Will Resign From H.A.A. Post | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...prosperous Sydney poultry farmer, Mackenzie earns a good living by chicken sexing, the occult craft of sorting out fluffy, day-old chicks by sex. A crack schoolboy rower, Mackenzie took up the individual sculls four months before the 1956 Olympics, learned fast enough to win a silver medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gamesmanship Afloat | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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