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The Harvard varsity eight, competing in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate—an eight event slate second only to the Grand Challenge Cup—stormed through its heats and semifinal against Brown to win a place in the final on July 8.
It was not his own race that Medaris described as “the best race of the regatta,” however. That honor went to the Harvard uncoxed four against the composite Henley and Thames Rowing Clubs, which got catapulted the Crimson into the semifinals of the Visitors?...
Several other Harvard oarsmen competed at the Regatta in boats unaffiliated with the Crimson, including rising senior Breffny Morgan in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls’ Challenge Cup, and graduates Malcolm Howard ‘05 and Kip McDaniel ‘04 in the Canadian eight and four...
The Canadian eight, who eventually won the Grand Challenge Cup, raced against Harvard as part of the team’s warm-up the day before the regatta started, beating the Harvard boat by a slender margin, Kitovitz said.
“We scrimmaged with the Canadian national team a few days before racing and they...only won by a couple of seconds. And they then won the Grand Challenge at Henley and the World Cup last weekend,” he said, hinting at even greater untested prowess...