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Lights Take HYPs; Heavies Persevere

1996

Sports Statistics

Record: Lights--3-0, 3-0 regatta; Heavies--3-3, 1-4

Lights Coach: Charlie Butt

Heavies Coach: Harry Parker

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1997

Consistency, consistency, consistency.

This is the story of Harvard's crew program.

Harvard's first heavyweight boat has made the Grand Finals of the Eastern Sprints for 33 straight years. The next longest streak is four years.

Harvard's first lightweight boat raced this past weekend looking for its fourth national championship in seven years.

Consistency.

Lightweights

Things got off to a slow start for the lightweight team. A sluggish beginning in the fall season left Harvard's ability in doubt around the league.

"The fall was not so great," said senior David Hirsch. "People began discounting us around the league. Yale was supposed to be the dominant team."

Things looked that way. Harvard faltered at Princeton's three-mile race, losing to Yale's first and second boats.

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