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...Crimson’s attempt to qualify for the 1968 Olympics was rocky as well. Parker’s eight secured the U.S. entry with a 0.05-second win over Penn in the Olympic Trials. The Harvard win fulfilled a five year-old promise made by the Olympic eight??€™s future coxswain, Paul Hoffman ’68, who taped a Mexico travel poster on the Newell Boathouse locker room on his very day as a freshman in 1963. Hoffman’s ability to stir the Harvard varsity even as a freshman proved quite the augur...
...walk-on all the more difficult.But Wintner found immediate success, rowing in the first freshman eight during his rookie season and earning a spot in the varsity boat his sophomore year. At the beginning of the 2006 spring season, Wintner was the only sophomore seated in the varsity eight??€”a feat for any first-year member of the Harvard varsity, but one especially remarkable given that he had picked up an oar for the first time just a season earlier. “Within a year, he was able to give all the guys who had been rowing...
...most impressive thing about the novice eight??€™s season was not what they accomplished but how they...
Although the Crimson four lost in the semifinal of the Visitors’ Cup to Leander, it galvanized the eight??€”and the crowds—with an exhilarating performance in the quarterfinals. After multiple lead changes throughout the race, Harvard was awarded the photo-finish victory over a composite Henley-Thames Boat Club entry. In addition to the outstanding performances, Henley also offered a chance for many of the Crimson rowers who hail from Europe to have their families watch them in a collegiate race for the first time...
Until the league’s presidents lift their ban on playoff participation, though, it will unfortunately be near impossible to judge how the Ancient Eight??€™s best stack up against I-AA’s best, which so impressively went toe-to-toe with the Big Ten’s best...