Asked whether there was any comfort inbeating-out the top-seeded Tigers, heavyweightrower Henry Nuzum, had this to say:
"We go to win, we don't go to beat Princeton,"Nuzum said. "We don't care to...get second, orthird, or fourth or anything else."
Lightweights
The men's lightweights had a good start totheir day. In the morning qualifying heats, theCrimson edged out the No. 1- seeded Tigers by alength. Princeton still qualified for the finals,but the Harvard rowers hoped it was a sign ofthings to come.
In the finals, the Crimson lightweights stormedout to an early lead, leaving everyone butPrinceton in the dust. By the 1000-meter mark,Harvard clung to a six-seat lead over the Tigers,but Princeton began to slowly turn up thepressure. At 500 meters, the Tigers began theirsprint and did not pass the Crimson until thefinal strokes of the race.
"You can't really say we went out too hard, Idon't think we did that," senior Timothy Langlosssaid. "When you get ahead early, you do pay for itat the end, and we were just hoping we wouldn'thave too pay as hard as we did."
If pride really was one price both Harvardteams paid yesterday, they can be confident thefuture holds greater returns. Two teams thatpoured their hearts out just happened to come upshort in races that could have gone either way.Perhaps Fran Tarkenton's words are a fittingclosure to yesterday's race and a sign of thingsto come.
"I've never know a man worth his salt whodidn't get knocked down and look back up at thesky and ask for more."