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Coach Ted Washburn's heavyweight freshmen crew, also undefeated before the Sprints, met disaster with about 500 meters remaining, when two members of the team caught crabs (a complete loss of synchronization with the rest of the boat). The Crimson, second before the miscue, settled for fifth behind Yale, Northeastern, Wisconsin and Cornell...
...other heavyweight action on the Charles, the undefeated freshmen and junior varsity boats both triumphed. Ted Washburn's frosh, led by stroke Paul Jeffrey, breezed to a 7.6-sec. win over Princeton and MIT; and the J.V. nipped the Tigers by a second-and-a-half...
Harvard's junior varsity and frosh oarsmen dimmed any Bruin hopes of a renaissance with wins in Saturday's preliminaries. The J.V. squeaked by, 6:05.7 to 6:06.8; but Ted Washburn's rookies, a traditionally invincible octet, wasted Brown's version of Yardlings...
...Harvard training program has many ways to develop this psychological edge, and the physical raw material it works upon. First, Harvard has a tradition of attracting the high school talent that has already distinguished itself in rowing. "A coach couldn't ask for better people," remarks freshman coach Ted Washburn, "We're in a Garden of Eden." Last year, he adds, six out of his eight first boaters had rowed in high school; stroke John MacEachern '81 and port oarsmen Bob Mudge '81 and Matt Arrott '81 had rowed for U.S. national teams. Experience is also evident in the varsity...
...talent is there, but it must be fine-tuned by quality coaching. Ted Washburn '64, who coxed all the way from junior high to Harvard and the 1964 Olympics, has been coaching the Crimson's freshmen for 15 years, and shows a technical expertise to match his experience. His training program parallels head Coach Parker's: an emphasis on long-distance endurance sessions during the fall and winter, with an increasing amount of short but hard rowing during the spring. Oarsmen work out in a variety of winter exercises: in addition to running and weightlifting, they row inside "the tanks...