Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Michael Horn's charges have reason to keep in practice. Coming off a second-place finish in last weekend's Boston Dinghy Cup regatta, the varsity sailors will have their tillers full trying to keep abreast of the always-tough armadas from Tufts, Yale and the University of Rhode Island in the race for a season-end berth in the North American championships. 'It's a rough year in the Northeast," Horn notes, and with only three of the top teams qualifying for the year-end shindig the team will have to keep its sails trim...
...varsity sheet-stretchers should be able to give the opposition a tough time. Led by former Olympic hopeful Terry Neff, senior Tom Reps, and junior co-captains Russell Long and Jim Hammitt, the sailors breezed home ahead of top-ranked Yale and traditional powerhouse Tufts in last weekend's meet, trailing only URI. The national sailing journals rate the Crimson between sixth and eighth in the nation, and Horn is confident his crew will wind up the season even better than that...
Following along in the squadron line are the freshmen, who really bring a smile to Horn's face. Last weekend skippers Steve Strittmatter and Nick Stone led the yardlin shipmates past the Coast Guard Academy and B.U. to take home first place at the season's first freshman invitational. "It looks very promising, to say the least," Horn says, with visions of first-place silverware undoubtedly doing a merry jig through his head...
...with meets coming up at MIT and B.U. this weekend, the Crimson squads will be eager to test out their early-season water wings, no matter what their friends are doing down south. "People just have more psyche in the spring," Brown says--and no doubt the sailors will be out to show that they've got more of it than anyone else afloat...
Mark Kirkland, a Mather House sophomore, watched this weekend's NCAA basketball tournament from a different perspective than your average Harvard student. Not only does he stand 6-ft. 6-in. tall, but as Kirkland says, there's an added dimension when you've played against some of the players you're watching on the tube...