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...victory will without a doubt leave the Middies seeded first in Saturday's Eastern Sprint Championships at Worcester. The winning crew, which averaged 6'3", 188 pounds, will now have to avoid a mental letdown before its sprint rematch...
...varsity upset was pulled off by a Middie crew which included four members of last year's Eastern Sprint champion plebe (freshmen) eight. Ullrich's squad jumped to a deck lead off the start and increased the margin to three-quarters of a length at the half-way mark...
With 800 meters to go, the Navy lead was a full length. A frantic Harvard sprint cut this margin in half by the finish, as Navy continued to understroke both opponents...
Again, Penn and Harvard are going into the race undefeated but for the first time since 1961, the host Midshipmen are a real threat to upset one if not both of the major powers. Navy had an excellent plebe (freshman) crew last year, which won the Eastern Sprint Championships. This year coach Carl Ullrich has incorporated four of these oarsmen into his varsity boat and five into his second varsity (J.V.) eight...
...sprinters had hoped to qualify for the 440 sprint relay finals in the Penn competition which were also held Saturday. However, their time of 43.3 seconds, which was a full second slower than their meet-record performance against Dartmouth, was short of the qualifying mark...