Word: vespers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson may be the World's Best Crew still, but no one is saying go today. In the very first round of Henley's Grand Challenge Regatta, the eight ran into Vesper's Olympic championship crew, five of whom had been in the boat that best Harvard by two lengths in the Olympic Trials last year. And Vesper repeated the triumph over the Henley distance, this time with the margin shaved to two-thirds of a length...
Call It Talent. Parker's crew is essentially the same one that was unbeaten last year until its loss to Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club in the Olympic trials. Now the Crimson is stronger, more mature, more confident. They average 6 ft. 3 in. and 180 lb.-including Coxswain John Unkovic, who stands 5 ft. 6 in. and weighs 120 lb. after dinner. Four of them-Captain and No. 6 Oar Paul Gunderson, Stroke Geoff Picard, No. 3 Oar Tom Pollock, No. 2 Oar Bob Schwarz-have been in the same boat since their freshman year at Harvard...
During Gunderson's tenure, the Harvard crew has terrorized the Eastern Seaboard. The 1964 eight compiled an undefeated season in intercollegiate competition, captured the Eastern Sprint title, and finished second behind the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia in the Olympic eight-oar trials...
...rowing clubs feared that the attempt to take over the NAAO foreshadowed an attempt to take over the United States Olympic Rowing Committee in the wake of the recent success of the Vesper Rowing Club entry in the Olympics...
...overhead as crews from six nations stroked their way down the 2,000-meter course. The odds-on favorite: Germany's Ratzeburg eight, back to defend the Olympic title they won in 1960. Coxed by Robert Zimonyi, at 46 the oldest man on the U.S. Olympic team, the Vesper Boat Club crew was rated no better than third. They had lost a preliminary heat to Ratzeburg, had to survive a repechage to get into the finals at all. This time, the U.S. crew nailed the Germans at the 800-meter mark, drew away steadily to win by H boat...