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...experience of a training week at Red Top, with no studies to interrupt the rowing, lent a special intensity to The Race. Despite the loss, there are no regrets. As one oarsman said of the week, "Never again in my life will I ever focus that much on one all-consuming thing...
Overall, Raymond said the oarsman appear more or less equal in talent and "if the team succeeds it will be because it's a team and not because we built the squad around a few big dudes...
With gloomy skies and a somber lake, Sunday, May 13, presented the Crimson oarsmen with a less than inspiring day. It had been an eventful evening prior to the races. Last-minute reservations had forced Harvard into a Route 9 motel for what one oarsman described as "horsemeat for dinner and Frisbees for breakfast." It was a less than luxurious start; but then again, the Harvard thoroughbreads were more interested in champagne on the dock than in their rooms...
...resting in the boat and his head buried in his arm. The letdown, the sudden drain of adrenalin and the misery of a second loss to despised Yale kept him rooted there for a good three minutes. Finally Raymond's hand descended to grab the hand of his disconcerted oarsman, and the pair walked away from the shell for moment, in the somber aftermath of defeat...
...disappointed by them catching up and a little bit scared," Paul Templeton, the senior bow oarsman, said yesterday, adding. "They're the kind of crew that if they got a little bit of momentum, they would really come...