Photo courtesy of Bob Miller ’70, Navy Varsity Lightweight Crew Captain 1969-1970.
Photo was taken in November 1969 during practice on the Severn.
Compiled, researched and written by Gary Lundeen ’75. Please send any additions and/or corrections and vintage photos to the NavyLights Staff Historian.
1V W-1 L-3 5th Grand EARC [Won by Harvard]
2V W-2 L-2 3rd Grand EARC [Won by Harvard]
1F W-2 L-1 3rd Grand EARC [Won by Princeton] First year Plebes compete at EARC Sprints since 1957
2F
4-4-70 Hammond HS at Annapolis, Maryland
| 1F |
| 1- Hammond |
| 2- Navy |
4-11-70 Princeton University at Annapolis, Maryland
| 1V | 2V | 1F |
| 1- Princeton | 1- Princeton | 1- Navy |
| 2- Navy | 2- Navy | 2- Princeton |
4-18-70 Georgetown University at Annapolis, Maryland
| 1V | 2V | 1F |
| 1- Navy | 1- Navy | 1- Navy |
| 2- Georgetown | 2- Georgetown | 2- Georgetown |
4-25-70 Harvard University (Haines Cup) at Cambridge, Massachusetts
| 1V | 2V |
| 1- Harvard | 1- Harvard |
| 2- Navy | 2- Navy |
5-2-70 University of Pennsylvania (Callow Cup) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| 1V | 2V |
| 1- MIT | 1- Navy |
| 2- Navy | 2- |
| 3- Penn | 3- |
5-9-70 EARC Championships at Worcester, Massachusetts
| 1V | 2V | 1F |
| 1- Harvard 6:06.7 | 1- Harvard 6:24.1 | 1- Princeton 6:28.8 |
| 2- Yale 6:15.7 | 2- Yale 6:30.6 | 2- Harvard 6:31.0 |
| 3- Princeton 6:16.3 | 3- Navy 6:31.1 | 3- Navy 6:32.6 |
| 5- Navy |
Navy Plebes compete at the Sprints for the first time since the 1957 Sprints hosted at the Naval Academy on the Severn River in Annapolis, Maryland
Jope Cup : Harvard (37), Yale (30), Navy (27), MIT (22), Penn (22), Princeton (22), Cornell (17), Dartmouth (7), Rutgers (6), Columbia (4)
Photos courtesy of Bob Miller ’70, Navy Varsity Lightweight Crew Captain 1969-1970. Photos were taken in November 1969 during practice on the Severn.
Coach: Thomas S. Althouse, LCDR, USN [USNA ’62]
Plebe Coach: Warren E. Sweetser III, Maj, USMC [USNA ’60, two-oar in the 1960 USA Olympic 8+]
Officer Rep: Hubbell Young Davidson, CDR, USN [USNA ’45]
Captain: Robert P. Miller, Jr. ’70
Manager: Robert J. Kimble ’70
Spirit: Stephen L. Madey, Jr. ’70