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What Sports Illustrated staffer Hugh Whall wrote in a fit of pique last year after Harvard's heavyweight crew refused once again to race in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta in favor of its four-mile event with Yale has been the sentiment of a number of crew writers and followers ever since Pennsylvania has become a threat to Harvard's dominance of the American college rowing scene...
...Harvard prefers to wallop Yale annually for the sake of tradition rather than meet Penn in a winner-take-all showdown at Syracuse, and bothered by the Crimson's unshakable nonchalance about a formally recognized national champion. Harvard's critics have expressed their discontent in such various methods as Whall's highly emotional pieces and the NCAA's decision to recognize the I.R.A. regatta as an officially-sanctioned national championship...
...mere fact that Harvard and Yale will meet again in New London this weekend, despite the fact that the Elis are almost certain to lose-and lose badly-is another sign of the unique Harvard attitude towards the sport, an attitude that, as Whall says, belongs back in the 19th century. But for that very reason, Crimson oarsmen feel, with a measure of validity, that their approach to crew is designed to bring about the greatest amount of fulfillment for the competitor...
...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...
...Aren't you Hertz now "Whall asked. "We'd rather be Avis." Nash maintained...