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Navy, who won last year's race and also the Eastern Sprint championships, came in third...
...Crimson took the lead at the start in the varsity heavyweight event at Annapolis and built it up while understroking Penn by about three strokes at a 31-32. Despite the high stroking however, Penn still managed to start the sprint with as much as 3/4 of a mile to go pushing the stroke...
Harvard will compete in the varsity division. The first event will be the "Happi Bagh" (elephant run), which is a sprint. Then comes the "Poni Cohn" (water thief), in which the elephants must carry a bucket of water in their trunks without getting the mahouts...
...natural herding disposition of elephants may present some difficulties. The school with the oldest female will have a nearly unbeatable advantage. Further, elephants hate bright light. The big fellas normally move at about 8-10 mph, but when aroused can sprint to 25 mph. They have to be pretty damn mad to run, however...
Confusion in the Harvard boat as to the whereabouts of the finish line hurt its sprint effort considerably. Coxswain John Kearney called for the final 20 power strokes when there were still 50 strokes remaining. As a result, he had to call for 20 more, but the Crimson strength had practically been spent by that time...