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Harvey Love's freshman crew opens its season at 4:30 p.m. today against Boston University and MIT over a mile and three-quarters upstream course on the Charles. The present first boat has rowed together as a unit for only four days, but it "has what it takes to win", according to Love...
...varsity crew took its first time trial over the four mile New London race course Saturday, turning in a time of 20 minutes and 13 seconds--11 seconds over the upstream record. The Yale varsity, which has already been at Gale's Ferry for over a week, made its preliminary run on Thursday and was clocked at 20 minutes and 40 seconds by Coach Skip Walz...
...Their time trial was considered "unsatisfactory" by Walz, who added, "we'll have to go faster." They rowed under ideal conditions, while the Crimson undercut them by 27 seconds with a slight following wind and an incoming tide. Bolles called his varsity's time "satisfactory under the conditions." The upstream record is 2 minutes and 2 seconds, set by Bolles' first crew...
...minutes before the start is the agonizing time of butterflies in the stomach for oarsmen, a time when most of them regret the foolish impulse that over made them go out for crew in the first place. They think of their roommates lolling on the riverbank miles upstream, with a case of beer on one side and a girl on the other. They think of those newspaper reports about how hot the other crews are this year, and they wonder about those rumors or nine-minute time trials...
...winning time not only clipped seconds off the old upstream record set by Spike Chase's crew in 1941, but it also demolished a 17-year-old downstream record established over a slightly shorter course. Which means, in short, that the Crimson has an even more excellent crew than usual this year, a crew which must be considered the overwhelming favorite to retain the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges 2,000 meter sprint championships at Syracuse this Saturday...