Lightweight Crew Enters Pan-Am Trials and Henley

Although denied the right to row in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships next month in Syracuse, Harvard's undefeated lightweight crew will have no shortage of high-caliber competition in the upcoming months.

At a team meeting earlier this week, the lights voted to enter the Pan-American Trials also in Syracuse in June. There the Crimson will face a yet unnamed field but one which will include collegiate-level boats which do well in the IRA regatta, which is for heavyweights, and numerous other private boat clubs.

Should the lights win the trials, undoubtedly they will compete in the finals in South America at the end of July.

Bound for Henley

Following the Henley event, the lights will either return home to prepare for the Pan-Am Finals or travel to Lucerne, Switzerland, to face additional European competition.

Row Away

Lightweight captain Dave Harman, who has stroked the varsity boat for three years, seemed optimistic about the crew's chances against upcoming competition. "We don't consider our selves at a serious disadvantage against the heavyweight competition. We're going out to win so we'll just try and row our own race."

The Crimson seems to face little chance of embarrassment at the hands of the traditionally superior heavyweight crews. The crew did not allow any of its lightweight competition to come within four lengths of it while often posting better times than heavy crews rowing the same course.