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Harvard fours, including two boats made up by splitting the undefeated eight that conquered Henley last July, secured fourth, fifth, and seventh places in a race won by the U.S. Olympic four from Vesper. The lead lightweight fours grabbed third in a contest in which the difference between that place and the sixth was .6 seconds...
Royden then came back to join some of her shellmates from this year's very successful national team, and stroke them to a second place showing behind the favored Vesper boat Club...
...crew lost but once that year, in April to a tough Princeton eight by one second. They bounced back in the first EWRA championships, though, trouncing the Tigers by two lengths. Then, in the national championships in Philadelphia, they overcame a strong Vesper boat club crew by one second to win the right to represent the U.S. in the World Championships at Moscow...
...things did not go so smoothly for Radcliffe at the nationals in San Francisco, as the eight lost to a powerful Vesper boat by a length of open water, placing second in the final. The only consolation was the fact that Vesper's eight, which went to Lucerne, Switzerland after the event, was not a collegiate one; instead it was a group of women from many other colleges who banded together after the regular season to form an unbeatable crew...
...unknown quantity. This is the first race of the year for the Minutewomen, so it's anyone's guess how good UMass might be. About the only indication of the Minutewomen's strength is that one of their rowers was a member of last year's national champion Vesper crew...