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...three undefeated crews on the water against three equally as unbeaten squads. By virtue of a record of more convincing margins over common opponents the Crimson has been installed as the pre-race consensus pick by crew experts and Penn coach Ted Nash and Navy mentor Carl Ullrich...
...Ullrich warns, "messin' around with relative margins of victories is like playin' Russian roulette. We're a much better crew than we were at this time last year," Ullrich said. "We only lost one oarsman to graduation from last season and since a narrow loss to Washington this April in San Diego, we've been untouched...
Which will probably really burn Carl Ullrich, the heavy crew coach at Navy who has directed that the Naval Academy boats and oars all be American-made in the interests of an All-American program. Ullrich likes to beat no school the way he likes to beat Harvard--the trouble is he rarely gets...
...Harvard's heavyweights used a Swiss-made Stampfli shell, rigged German-style, with the stroke and bow oars on the port side. By this Spring, almost everybody was using foreign shells with German rigs. Everybody, that is, except Navy coach Carl Ullrich. Ullrich's boys use a standard, American Pocock shell, rigged in the standard fashion, with standard American oars...
...Navy, Ullrich stresses hard work as the only factor in the Middies' victories. "We use no foreign equipment, no gimmicks, no fancy stuff," Ullrich said. "I wish everyone rowed that way, then it'd be men against men--like it used...