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...least three Harvard varsity squads have looked at things in perspective. do feel strongly about the issues in question. and have decided to compete this weekend in the Heptagonals and the EARC Sprint championships. Quite obviously, those athletes have considered the validity of their participation as strongly, if not more so, than their fellow students, and have arrived at a conclusion that is dramatically different...
Yesterday morning, before several hundred spectators on the banks of the Charles, his powerful Quaker varsity exploded to an early one-length lead over Navy and Harvard, held it throughout the body of the race with a brutally high stroke, and beat down a late Crimson sprint with one of its own to clinch the Adams Cup title for the second consecutive year...
...unless Harvard is able to drastically reverse yesterday's results at the EARC Sprint championships next weekend-as it did last year-Penn must be considered the best crew in the East, if not the nation...
Approaching the Mass. Avenue bridge. Penn went to 44 for 10 strokes, opening up a full length on Navy and Harvard. which had pulled even with the Middies by then. With 800 meters to go. Harvard began to move slightly on Penn, readying itself for a sprint which had, with one exception in the past, always been enough...
...Quakers Jumped from 38 to 41, and then to 43, nullifying the Crimson's 39-count sprint. At the finish. Penn had almost a full length on Harvard, three on tiring Navy, and the best time of the day. 6:16.6. Harvard was clocked...