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John MacEachern and Jay Smith are the only sophomores who rowed on last year's Sprint championship boat to crack this year's varsity eight...
Yale, which vanquished the Crimson in the 1978 Eastern Sprint Finals, will not make the trip to the coast, but every other sprint finalist will row there, plus Washington, last year's San Diego winner, and the University of California...
Extra-large Charlie Altekruse, a junior, is the only other varsity returnee, but seniors Hap Porter and Tim McGee, veterans of the 1978 Sprint champion junior varsity, stand to help the team...
...fall and winter, with an increasing amount of short but hard rowing during the spring. Oarsmen work out in a variety of winter exercises: in addition to running and weightlifting, they row inside "the tanks" against mechanically generated currents, pull against the weighted flywheel of a rowing machine and sprint up and down the steps of Harvard Stadium. Such rigorous training has produced some of the best freshman crews in the world, as evidenced by first-place honors in England's Henley Thames Challenge regatta...
Senior co-captain Malcolm Cooper grabbed 11th in the 50 free last year and this week, as three-time qualifier, will be among the most experienced competitors in the field. This valuable seasoning is perhaps more critical in the "don't blink or you'll miss it" two-lap sprint than in any other event...