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	Ivy League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harvard and Yale are celebrated football and crew rivals.
		Ten alumni of Harvard founded Yale, and other Harvard alumni, such as minister Increase Mather and his son Cotton Mather, nurtured its development.
		Boat clubs from Harvard and Yale met in the first sporting event held between students of two U.S. colleges on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, in 1852.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivy_League (2648 words)

	The Harvard-Yale Regatta
		Harvard and Yale met again in 1859 and 1860, but it wasn't until 1864 that the Regatta became an annual event.
		That all changed when Yale issued a challenge to Harvard "to test the superiority of the oarsmen of the two colleges." Thus the oldest intercollegiate athletic event was born.
		Harvard's winning time of 18:41.9 and Yale's clocking of 18:45.5 both bettered the previous standard.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~harvcrew/Website/History/HY (1113 words)

	Harvard-Yale Boat Race Turns 150
		Due to scheduling gaps in the early years and interruptions for the Civil War and both world wars, this year's regatta will be not the 150th but merely the 137th Harvard-Yale race.
		But in 1876, long before the modern Olympics, Harvard and Yale settled on a four-mile contest, probably modeled on the Oxford-Cambridge race.
		The sesquicentennial of college athletics in America takes place June 8 on the Thames (rhymes with "James") River in New London, Connecticut, when the Harvard and Yale heavyweight crews line up for a race that celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/050240.html (457 words)

	Harvard-Yale Regatta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Harvard-Yale Regatta is an annual rowing race between Yale and Harvard universities.
		The Harvard-Yale Regatta - on Harvard Crew website
		The race has been exclusively between Harvard and Yale except for 1897 when the race was held as part of a three boat race with Cornell on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York, where, athough it lost to Cornell, Yale was deemed the winner of the Harvard-Yale race.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvard-Yale_Boat_Race (341 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Crew clocks Yale at historic regatta
		Harvard's heavyweight crew completed the sweep against Yale this past Saturday (June 8) at the 150th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, America's oldest intercollegiate athletic event.
		Prior to the varsity win, Harvard's JV crew broke open a close race in the second mile, finishing 26 seconds ahead of Yale, while the freshmen finished four lengths ahead of the Elis after a Yale oarsman caught a disabling "crab" (submerged oar).
		It's the Crimson's 16th undefeated season under veteran coach Harry Parker, who has managed a 34-6 record against Yale in his 40-year Harvard career.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/06.13/05-crew.html (263 words)

	Hartford Advocate: Autumntimes Zen of Rowing
		Until Yale took the race back from Harvard, the photographs of 11 previous crews could not be hung on the wall of the Gales Ferry boathouse.
		Driscoll was a member of the 1946 crew that beat Harvard, but she stopped rowing when her work as a cancer researcher took over.
		This year, the Harvard H was still visible, if peeling, at the start of the day.
	old.hartfordadvocate.com /articles/autumncrew.html (3161 words)

	ESPN.com: NCAA - Harvard crew beats Yale in 138th Regatta
		ESPN.com: NCAA - Harvard crew beats Yale in 138th Regatta
		Harvard also won the freshmen and second varsity races, completing its third straight sweep of the Regatta.
		"I thought we had a good crew, but obviously Harvard has a great, great crew," Yale coach John Pescatore said.
	espn.go.com /ncaa/news/2003/0607/1564747.html (224 words)

	Yale Alumni Magazine: Sporting Life
		The Yale athletics department felt the same way, and Pescatore, who rowed at Penn in the 1980s and won an Olympic bronze medal in 1988, added the national regatta to the schedule soon after he arrived.
		Vogel, who now works in Yale's fund-raising office, says that his rowers always gave their all, and that the sophomore class Pescatore inherited was deep and strong.
		At least nine Yale students and alumni, representing four different nations and territories, were scheduled to compete in the Olympic games in August in Athens.
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/2004_09/sports.html (1365 words)

	Yale-Harvard Regatta Turns 140 :: Oldest Collegiate Competition Renewed Saturday
		Harvard won the three-mile JV race with a time of 13:46.1 to 14:16.4, while also capturing the freshman race with a time of 8:46.1 on the two-mile course.
		Yale's longest streak is six, done twice around the turn of the century (1892-98, 1900-05) and from 1921-26.
		Yale is the oldest boat club in America...The Crimson has won eight straight JV races and leads that series, 67-35...
	yalebulldogs.collegesports.com /sports/m-crewhvy/spec-rel/060705aab.html (2394 words)

	Daily Sports Capsule: 6/9/02
		Harvard celebrated its 16th sweep in 18 years in the Harvard-Yale Regatta Saturday, crushing its rival in the four-mile varsity race by a margin of 41.3 seconds.
		Harvard dominated the 150th anniversary of the Regatta, coming in at 19:02.5.
		The Crimson's time was the eighth fastest in Regatta history, with its margin the widest since 1975.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-02/06-09-02/zzzspcap.htm (472 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Harvard University
		Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax in their annual football meeting, which dates to 1875 and is usually called simply The Game as a sign of its importance.
		Harvard student organizations run the gamut, from publications, to political clubs, ethnic and religious associations, special interests, community service, and so on.The radio station WHRB (95.3FM Cambridge), is run exclusively by Harvard students, and is given space on the Harvard campus in the basement of Pennypacker Hall, a freshman dormitory.
		Measured purely by statistics, Harvard is one of the world's most prominent universities —as Baedeker's guidebook phrased it in 1893, "the oldest, richest, and most famous of American seats of learning." Since 1974, for example, nineteen Nobel Prize winners and fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners have served on the Harvard faculty.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Harvard (2241 words)

	yaledailynews.com - Men's crew loses battle of heavyweights
		With this year's victory at the Y-H Regatta, Harvard increased its record against Yale to 85-53, having won four straight and 17 of the last 19 contests.
		Harvard entered the competition having already won the national championship at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta and the Eastern Sprints title.
		The results were similar in the three-mile junior varsity race, where Harvard inched out to open water at the half-mile mark and extended its lead to three boat lengths after a mile, winning 13:57 to 14:31.2.
	www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=22903 (810 words)

	Ivy League Sports
		Yale's 809 all-time football victories are more than any other college, while Harvard has an impressive 743 wins in its history, including a perfect 9-0 mark last fall.
		This year alone, Harvard and Yale are going head-to-head in 43 athletic events spanning 31 men's and women's sports.
		Yale, with the addition of co-ed and women's sailing in 2002-03, will field 35 athletic teams with approximately 1,000 athletes, and has 100 national titles to its credit, including several in football, swimming and diving, and golf.
	www.ivyleaguesports.com /article.asp?intID=1696 (621 words)

	YAM Summer 2002 - Light & Verity
		The 150th Harvard-Yale Regatta brought back some of the festive air of races past, but when the races were over, only Harvard was celebrating: The Crimson's crews swept Yale for the 12th time in the last 17 years, the Yale varsity finishing 41.8 seconds behind Harvard.
		Harvard and Yale polo alumni will square off in a first-ever benefit alumni game in September at the Greenwich Polo Club.
		Former Yale Corporation Fellow Diana Brooks '72 was sentenced to six months of house arrest and three years of probation in April after admitting to a role in price-fixing at Sotheby's auction house, where she was chief executive.
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/02_07/l_v.html (3101 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / College / Final is grand for Harvard
		The Harvard lights broke down into a four to take gold in the men's freshman four with coxswain, while the Harvard third varsity eight also broke down into two fours to take second and third, respectively, in the men's open four with coxswain.
		From there, Harvard bolted for the finish line, charging to a 1-length lead with 700 meters to go, and extending to a nearly five-second victory in a time of 5:53.18.
		Harvard 3-seat Malcolm Howard admitted to race-day nerves but gained confidence as the crew motored down the course.
	www.boston.com /sports/colleges/articles/2004/06/06/final_is_grand_for_harvard (505 words)

	Nation's Oldest Rivalry Adds 140th Chapter Saturday ::
		Yale was an impressive third in the second varsity race, where Harvard's JV was fifth.
		At Sprints, Harvard's heavyweights took the varsity Grand Finals for the third straight year, while Yale improved from a ninth-place finish in 2004 to finish sixth.
		Each is enjoying his third season in Harvard's top boat, and both own four gold medals from Sprints (three in the 1V, and one as part of the freshman entry in 2002) in addition to their three National Championship medals.
	www.cstv.com /sports/c-crew/stories/061005aaa.html (1246 words)

	Harvard Gazette: In New London, Crimson is master and commander
		Yale, which finished third at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta earlier this month (a mere half-length behind Harvard), completed the four-mile course just four seconds later.
		Harvard concludes the 2004 campaign undefeated with a 7-0 dual record.
		In the final race, Harvard's varsity boat completed the four-mile course in a time of 18:42.1, nearly 25 seconds faster than the Elis' run of 19:06.8.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/06.17/05-crew.html (276 words)

	Crimson Posts Sweep on Thames in 139th Harvard-Yale Regatta :: Harvard wraps up second consecutive perfect season in win
		In less than ideal rowing conditions - the crews were greeted by a stiff tailwind and increasingly choppy water as the afternoon wore on - Harvard had pulled ahead by the one-mile mark, and gradually increased its lead as it moved down the course.
		The freshman race was close throughout, with Harvard finally pulling out the win by three-quarters of a length and posting a time of 8:46.1, the Yalies right behind in 8:50.0.
		It was the fourth consecutive season that Harvard swept the river, adding another chapter to the nation's oldest intercollegiate sporting event.
	gocrimson.collegesports.com /sports/m-crewhvy/recaps/061204aaa.html (982 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Sports :: M. Heavyweights Win National Championship with Open Water
		Harvard’s success at IRAs this year has not changed many of the rowers’ view that training at Red Top for the Harvard-Yale regatta should take a higher priority.
		The 3.8-second victory at IRAs was as close as any boat came to Harvard in a dual race or a grand final of a regatta.
		Harvard won the Varsity Challenge Cup, given to the best heavyweight first varsity at IRAs, for the first time in school history with a surprisingly large margin of victory of nearly four seconds over closest-finisher Washington.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=348232 (1044 words)

	Bulldog Bytes: Official Yale Athletic Department
		Harvard claimed the 138th Yale-Harvard Regatta on June 7, winning the varsity race with a time of 18:54.4 to Yale's 19:44.2.
		Yale is making its first appearance in the preseason NIT, but participated in the postseason NIT in 2001-02 and beat Rutgers in the first round before falling to Tennessee Tech.
		Vancisin was at the helm of the Yale program for 19 years from 1956-75, and led the squad to two Ivy League championships, including his first season in 1956-57, which went 18-8 and 12-2 in the league.
	www.yale.edu /athletic/start.html (3329 words)

	Spring into Sports
		The heavyweight crews swept all three events at the Harvard-Yale Regatta, the varsity rowing the four miles in 18:55.6 to beat Yale by 37.1 seconds.
		The netwomen (12-9, 5-2 Ivy) came in third in the Ivies, behind Penn and Yale.
		The Radcliffe heavies earned a trip to the NCAA regatta, where they finished last in the petite final and twelfth overall.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/0701105.html (289 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Sports :: M. Heavies To Compete in Nationals
		Yale’s decision drew mixed responses from the Harvard heavyweights, who were forced to decide whether or not to follow the Bulldogs to Camden.
		Harvard University is obsessed with tradition—the H-Y Regatta is practically a sacred rite.
		He said that Yale knew the Crimson would inevitably fall in line if it decided to attend IRAs, because if Harvard trained through National Championships the Bulldogs would have an excuse at H-Y. “They’re trying to run away from the race,” Skey said.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=347980 (1333 words)

	ROWING - LoveToKnow Article on ROWING
		The two annual inter-collegiate regattas are the Harvard-Yale at New London, and that at Poughkeepsie, open to all but not participated in by Harvard and Yale.
		Yale and Harvard Universities became centres of aquatic energy very early in the history of American rowing.
		The next year, 1883, Yale tried an even faster and shorter stroke, but were easily beaten by Harvard, who rowed with great length and steadiness.
	www.1911ency.org /R/RO/ROWING.htm (4487 words)

	Harvard-Yale Regatta 2000 Live Streaming by Chelsea Data
		Yale finished in 20:45.94; Harvard came in at 20:51.98.
		Stop by the Yale Scoreboard where you can learn more about the Regatta's History as the oldest collegiate athletic competition.
		THe Regatta was delayed due to rough conditions on the Thames River.
	www.chelseadata.com /events/regatta.html (262 words)

	About One Ocean Kayks
		Having achieved everything I ever dreamt of in the world of rowing, I 'retired' after a last victorious race in the Harvard-Yale regatta.
		In the US I later joined the crew at Harvard University, where a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science became yet another step in my understanding of physics, materials, and fluid dynamics.
		Throughout my 14 year rowing 'career', I have raced in countless regattas and in every class category that the sport of rowing had to offer.
	www.oneoceankayaks.com /About.htm (388 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Thames -- Jun. 29, 1925
		In the other events of the 63rd annual Harvard-Yale regatta on the Connecticut Thames, Yale was less casual.
		The Yale combination eight led struggling Harvard by three lengths in one mile.
		And the Yale Varsity led courageous, bitterending Harvard by two lengths in four miles.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,736535,00.html (328 words)

	"Illustration of 1867 Harvard-Yale baseball game"
		The traditional Harvard-Yale regatta held at the same time overshadowed the ball game, by far.
		"THE BASE BALL MATCH." Harvard vs. Yale, 1867
		Old Yale: Yale and the Origins of Intercollegiate Baseball: A team from Yale played in the first truly modern intercollegiate baseball game.
	www.vbba.org /ed-interp/1867harvard-yale.html (683 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > College Basketball -- Huggins suspended by Cincinnati in wake of DUI arrest
		Harvard's crew won the 139th running of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, the nation's oldest intercollegiate athletic event, for the fifth year in a row. . .
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	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/college_basketball/20040613-9999-1s13briefs.html (688 words)

	Town of Groton : Groton History Online
		Yale and Harvard Boat Race, New London, Conn.
	www.town.groton.ct.us /history/detail.asp?bibid=38 (8 words)

	Carl Bialik's Articles
		I also wrote the 2002 fall-sports roundup and brief articles on a Yale-Harvard regatta; a hockey phenom; the great O'Neill twin sisters of Yale track; Bulldog football coaching legend Carm Cozza; NFL draftee Nate Lawrie '04; the men's heavyweight crew team; and an Olympian wrestler hitting the law books.
		David Goldenberg and I wrote the fall 2000 Yale sports recap article for the Alumni Magazine, covering the football team and its latest win over Harvard, the surprising women's cross-country team, which finished seventh in the country, and all other fall sports teams.
		The legendary Yale football coach is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.
	www.carlbialik.com /alumnimag.html (332 words)

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