Crimson Lightweights Face Princeton, Yale

The lightweight crew nosed out Princeton by less than a length last weekend, but the Crimson could easily be on the wrong end of that length when they face both Princeton and Yale in the race for the Goldthwait Cup, emblematic of Big Three supremacy, at Derby, Conn, Saturday.

Harvard will be out for its fourth consecutive victory in the Goldthwait Cup competition and its third since Navy stopped the lightweights streak at 32 earlier this season. But Crimson coach K.O. Chase is not radiating confidence about Saturday's race.

"I don't know what Yale has in store for us," Chase admitted, "and I'd like to get a little more power in the boat. There are several changes, I'm contemplating, but I'm not sure I'll make them yet."

The Crimson has only one other race left besides the Goldthwait Cup. On May 20 the lightweights will join the heavies at Worcester to race for the lightweight Eastern Sprint Campionship on the 3,000 meter course on Lake Quinsigamond.