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House Crews Run on Spirit in Current Struggle to Stay Afloat

1852

Harvard/Yale race--the first U.S. intercollegiate sporting event

1919

Dormitory crews row in the spring and fall

1930-31

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Inter-House athletics begin under President Lowell's House system

1932

Harvard-Yale House-College races begin

1958

Last recorded mention of House-College races

1970

Radcliffe students join in House races

1996-97

All 13 Houses receive new shells

"The success of the teams relies really not onthe coaching," said Dan Boyne, director ofrecreational rowing at Weld Boathouse who assistscurrent House crews.

"We give them some coaching, but they're reallyrun by student organizing, and how well they dodepends on their student leaders," he said.

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