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...Soaff, 3b 3 0 0 0 Lyman, 2b 2 0 0 0 Wark, c 1 0 0 0 20 0 1 0 DARTMOUTH (2) Lavery, cf 4 0 2 0 Basclo, as 3 0 0 0 Balaguer, if 2 2 0 0 Cole, 2b 2 0 1 0 Whall, 1b 2 0 1 1 Johnson, dh 1 0 0 1 Karof, rf 2 0 0 0 DeGannaro, 3b 2 0 2 0 Timmons, c 21 2 6 2 Harvard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --0 Dartmouth...
...first, after Penn's decisive victory in the Adams Cup last May, was produced in the face of subtle urging from Sports Illustrated staffer Hugh Whall to claim final domination over the Harvard empire. Nash would have none of it, predicted that Harvard could just as easily reverse the result a week later. And when the Crimson fulfilled his suggestion, he pointed out that Parker and Harvard were as powerful and as lordly as ever...
...Crimson, apparently, cares little about who is considered the champion. Last year, after Whall's piece on Penn's victory had appeared, heavyweight stroke Art Evans said that Harvard's varsity didn't give a damn about a recognized national title, that the boat had proved to itself everything it had to by winning at Worcester in May, and that the Yale race would probably be held as long as both colleges felt it was a valid experience. And there is no indication that either crew feels differently this year' either, although Yale failed to even make the varsity finals...
...little more than a runner up event, and that year, after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside, Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson at Henley, and according to one Harvard athletic official, " Sports Illustrated has never forgiven us since...
...meters of the race, held off Penn's high stroke, and finished nearly a length in front. Suddenly, the championship issue had been clouded again, and due to Harvard's insistence upon racing at New London instead of Syracuse, it was never to be resolved formally, except by Whall and the Quakers...