Word: rowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anne Benton, a lean and smooth freshman who sculled in Europe over the summer, will sit behind Strong at seven. A couple of veterans who took a year off from rowing, Karen Oberhauser and Nelia Worsley, will take charge of the five-seat and the bow, respectively. Former J.V. rower Cathy Dement will supply a lot of power from the six-seat, while scrappy sophomore Kelly Ronan--a stroke on last year's novice eight--will sit four...
...indefatigible spirit lagged briefly last fall when he wasn't 'boated' for the Head of the Charles race. He stopped rowing, hacked around playing rugby and House tackle football, but his soul and spirit still belonged to Newell Boathouse. It took less than a month before Harvard's shortest rower since 1907 (according to the record books) was back in the tanks...
Tricky turns and high winds on the three-mile Charles River course made conditions torturous in the morning. 'It was the most brutal experience of my life,' one rower said...
...there's little time for serenity while you're actually rowing. Each individual must have the technique down: drop the oar quick, slide, release, feather, square up the oar and do it again. And again. And again. The rest of the team can't cover up for any one rower...
...barely more than a practice race every year," Higginson said. The aim is to beat the Lions by as much as possible and then compare margins with Princeton. Last year on the Harlem River a rock thrown from the shore put a Crimson rower out of commission just before the race, but even that could not alter Columbia's fortunes...