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)
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