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...bridge, built in 1866, is the fourth on the same site; the others were carried away by flood waters or smashed by ice floes. It is a long, gray shedlike structure, faintly medieval in appearance. The siding boards on the upstream side give evidence of the last heavy attack by ice, in 1977; the lower ends of the boards, which were broken off, have been replaced, and are lighter in color. The sky shows through the dozens of small holes in the roof...
...Head is a three-mile upstream race featuring 780 boats and 3500 competitors in 14 different events, making it the country's largest single-day rowing event...
Eliot Bridge: bridge just upstream from Harvard that is the site of the most notorious crashes at the Head. The twisting river has little mercy for coxs unfamiliar with its hairpin turns and bridge arches...
Thirty feet below, the wind drove two-foot whitecaps upstream, and the surf crashed against the base of the bridge...
...Further upstream, five men identified only as Eliot House residents plunged into the breakers for a swim. Metro police persuaded them to towel...