Junior Jim Crick, last year's JV cox and never a loser in an collegiate race, will call the varsity's races this spring.

After its own convincing win at San Diego, this year's JV boat figured to be similarly dominant in its own division. However, the jayvees were upset by Brown last Saturday.

Harvard freshmen Coach Ted Washburn's crews have dominated the competition for the past four years, earning Eastern Sprints titles in each of those campaigns, but Washburn may be facing an uphill battle to extend that streak in '87. His vulnerable first heavies dropped their season-opener to the Brown frosh last Saturday.

Schedule

On April 25, the heavies see action in Philadelphia against Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup, an annual struggle between three powerhouses that Harvard hasn't won in three years. Penn took the race '86, and Navy was the victor the two previous seasons.

Then it's a May 2 tune-up against Northeastern, in preparation for the crucial EARC Sprints on May 10 at Worcester. The Sprints determine Eastern rowing supremacy, and mark the first major regatta of the late season. The heavies most recently nabbed Sprints crowns in '85 and '83.

Trips to the national championship race at Cincinnati and the Henley Regatta in England may be forthcoming if the Crimson Eight is as successful as predicted, but one match-up that can be counted on is the Harvard-Yale race at New London, Conn., on June 6.

The Crimson-Eli match up was first held in 1852, marking the first intercollegiate athletic contest in the United States. Harvard has captured the past two installments of this definition-of-tradition rivalry.

And though it's still early in the season, the Harvard varsity heavyweights are a good bet to be winners quite frequently in this, their 128th season of competition.