Word: severn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Heavyweights vs. Navy on the Severn; Annapolis...
...final race before The Race, the Harvard heavyweight crew breezed past Navy and Penn Saturday to take the Adams Cup for the eighth time in nine years on the choppy Severn River in Annapolis...
Peter Raymond's stronger-every-day charges barely needed to exert themselves en route to a convincing sweep over Navy on the Severn River in Annapolis, Md. But after the Crimson oarsmen had departed, Haines Cup in tow, the return trek to Cambridge presented all the challenges the travellers could have wished for on an overcast weekend...
...prime difference between the way things are done at the Point and the way they are done on the Severn is that the Naval Academy system is somewhat more realistic in terms of human behavior. You are expected to conform to the Naval Academy's standards for behavior and its regulations. If you are caught committing a breach of conduct or an "offense," you are punished and pay the price. At West Point, the system, in addition to having the built-in potential for abuse also has the built-in mechanism for self-destruction pointed out in your article...
...meter mark, which allowed Penn to creep back to within a half seat of the Crimson. But the boat regrouped, and quickly retook command of the situation. Twenty strokes later, Bixby's oar decided that once was not enough, as it dove back in the traditionally horrendous Severn for a second helping--this time, a boat-stopping crab...