Shoving off from the Newell float (above) before the recent Eastern Sprint Regatta are the eight men who will probably row against the Blue over the four-mile course at New London on June 25.
Pennsylvania's coach, Rusty Callow, calls them the second best crew he has ever seen. Reading from stern to bow: SAM MANTEL, cox; BILL CURWEN, stroke; PAUL KNAPLUND (captain), 7; FRANK STRONG, 6; JUD GALE, 5; DICK EMMET, 4; TED REYNOLDS, 3; DON FELT, 2; MIKE SCULLY, bow.
Defeated only by Cornell this spring, Tom Bolles' huskies are considered the boat to beat at the Olympic Trials, scheduled for Princeton's Lake Carnegie less than a week after the Yale race.
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