Word: vespers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph didn't mean too much, however, since the Olympic-bound Vesper Boat Club eight sat on the sidelines for the event. The Philadelphia oarsmen are the only crew to have beaten Harvard this year; they beat the Crimson by one length in the Olympic Trials July...
...college is to order a heavy meal, wash it down with a cold beer, take a deep drag on a cigarette -and gleefully go to pot. But not if they live in Philadelphia and know how to pull an oar. Philadelphia's 99-year-old Vesper Boat Club awards no letters or athletic scholarships; its members work out six days a week, row as much as six miles each practice session. Why? "Because we like it," says Secretary-Treasurer John B. Kelly Jr., onetime Olympic sculler and brother of Monaco's Princess Grace. "We even like it enough...
Last week at New York's Orchard Beach Lagoon, the smooth-stroking Vesper eight trounced 15 of the country's finest crews - and thereby became the first club crew to represent the U.S. at the Olympics since another Vesper crew...
...Vesper almost did not get into the trials at all, thanks to a mix-up in the mails. Their registration arrived after the deadline: only a last-minute decision by the U.S. Olympic Committee allowed them to compete. Seeded fourth, be hind California, Harvard and Washing ton, Vesper did not figure to offer much competition to the younger col lege crews. Their average age was 26, and only the presence of two under graduate ringers from La Salle College kept it that low. The part-time coach, Allan Rosenberg, is a Philadelphia law yer. The coxswain, Robert Zimonyi...
That was nothing compared to the surprise Vesper pulled in the finals. California was now the heavy favorite; the high-stroking Bears had rattled off seven straight victories. At the starting gun, Cal spurted into the lead, stroking at a phenomenal 44. Harvard was second, Yale third-and Vesper was left at the line. But then Harvard sliced out in front of Cal, and Vesper began to move up. At the 800-meter mark, with 1,200 meters to go, the Philadelphians drew even with Harvard, edged ahead-and never looked back. Eight tulip-shaped oars swinging as one, they...