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...times. The University of California has won three. Navy, Yale and Vesper B. C. have each won twice. Until recently, it had become almost a casual thing. An American victory in the eight-oared race was as expected as an American victory in the 400-meter run, or a U. S. sweep in the freestyle sprints...
Four years have changed all that, though. Harvard's last-place effort at the 1968 games at Mexico and dismal American showings in annual international competitions since then have signalled trouble for the U. S. eight at Munich next September. The competition there will be overwhelming. Defending world champion New Zealand, which upset a powerful East German group at Copenhagen last year. West Germany, victors in 1960 at Rome and still formidable. Australia. The Soviet Union. A brilliant, and, some say, invincible field...
...will not be an enviable task to coach the U. S. team this summer, and it will be a less enviable task to select it. This year, for the first time in history, the American entries in the eight-oared and four-with-coxswain events will not come from a weekend of one-shot trial races, but from a carefully picked group of oarsmen from college and club eights all over the country...
...medal against the kind of competition Europe, Australia and New Zealand was putting up. West German boats had won at Rome, and they had won at Mexico City. Quite possibly, they could win at Munich, too, unless a fairly radical change was made in the selection process for the U. S. team...
...Ratzeburg crew snapped a 40-year American monopoly on the Olympic eight-oared title, the superiority of the European training programs, bolstered by improvements in equipment and rigging concepts, have resulted in consistent disappointment for American eights in international races. And despite an eagerness on the part of several U. S. rowing coaches to adopt new European methods, the gulf appears to be widening, if anything...