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The Harvard–Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of Harvard University and Yale University. First contested in 1852, it has been held annually since 1859 with exceptions during major wars fought by the United States and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The crew had an uneven spring, and performed poorly at the Eastern Sprints (the league championship for the EARC). The annual highpoint of the Harvard rowing season is the Harvard-Yale race (the oldest and longest-running intercollegiate sporting event in the United States) held in June. Parker meticulously prepared his crew for their biggest ...
Harvard men's eight at Henley, 2004. Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States. [1] The first intercollegiate race was a contest between Yale and Harvard in 1852. [1]
Newell Boathouse, named for a popular Harvard athlete killed just a few years after graduation, is the primary boathouse used by Harvard University's varsity men's rowing teams. [1] It stands on land subject to an unusual peppercorn lease agreement between Harvard and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [2] [3]
Graduate rowing programs also use Weld. Harvard men's rowing uses Newell Boathouse on the Boston side of the river. The boathouse is situated at the halfway point of the Head of the Charles Regatta. Until recent decades, rowing and sculling used finely crafted wooden boats.
Swan hails from Simsbury, Connecticut and is a graduate of Harvard University. He was an alternate for the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, not getting a chance to row. At the 1994 World Rowing Championships he was a member of the American team which finished second behind Romania in the coxed four final.
In September 1974, he was a student at Harvard University. [3] While there, he sat stroke position in the university's heavyweight rowing team, winning the 1975 Harvard–Yale Regatta varsity race. [4] He graduated from Harvard in 1975, and was inducted into the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1999. [5]
In 2011 he was named head coach of Radcliffe lightweight crew (Harvard University). In 2013 Bartman went on to become the head coach of the Harvard University men's lightweight crew. From 2016 to 2019, Bartman worked as head coach and men's varsity coach at Friends of Port Rowing Club on Long Island, NY.