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...hours of Saturday morning, two of the three of Eastern heavyweight crew--Harvard and Navy--sat steadily on the glassy surface of the Severn River in Annapolis, poised for the start of their long-awaited showdown. Less than six minutes later, Navy was vanquished, and only Yale remained between the Crimson and uncontested rowing supremacy this side of the Mississippi...
...midshipmen were sunk almost before the race began. They rowed to the starting line in a heavy, wooden Pocock shell better suited for the perpetually rough Severn River in Annapolis. But the Charles early Saturday morning was glass-smooth, and the Crimson oarsmen grabbed an early five-seat lead at the start, rowing at a sharp 42-stroke cadence...
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...Severn is THE Columbia man," the newspaper said of the new president, who graduated summa cum laude from the college in 1952. He was first in his class at the law school three years later and became the youngest full professor in Columbia's history...
...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...