Word: headwind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race course was shortened from the normal 1500 meters to approximately 1400 meters, beginning below the Northeastern boathouse and finishing at Peabody Terrace with two bridges in the middle, because a strong quartering headwind (in between a direct crosswind and a direct headwind) worked havoc in the basin, making in unrowable...
...took 23 minutes and 26 seconds of sustained agony in a moderate headwind to cover the unusually slow course, but Harvard was not to be denied its revenge. Parker would say afterwards that his outsized team (Yale averaged 10 pounds more per man) won on courage and raw determination, giving him "by far the finest effort any boat ever made for me. They guys rowed a gutsy race all the way," Paker said...
Radcliffe jumped out to a three-seat lead and proceeded to match stroke for stroke over the first 1000 meters in the gusty Cambridge lane headwind. But over the final 500 meters, the 'Cliffe (who voted to retain the Radcliffe logo and name in keeping with tradition while other squads adopted the "Harvard women's" catch-all) caught a couple of devastating 'crabs' in the choppy surf...
...Radcliffe J. V. lights took on Rutgers, B.U. and two MIT heavyweight crews Saturday and placed third behind the Rutgers eight and one of the MIT crews. "They were outsized, and the tough headwind hurt them," Huntsman said...
...Wrongo. Early in the first hwlf the blue-striped Yalies pushed across for a try and followed with the conversion to pull ahead 6-0. Facing a strong headwind, the Crimson attack could not counter; the unkind gusts disrupted all passing and kept Harvard out of kicking range...