Sailors Win Fowle Trophy

Harvard's sailing team won its fourth major trophy of the season in New London last weekend as it shook off M.I.T. in the competition for the Fowle Trophy, symbolic of the New England Fall team racing championship.

The Crimson's four crews, tied for second after Saturday's round robin competition, edged out the Engineers in the finals of the sailoffs of the top four teams in the round robin.

In team racing a college's four crews compete as a team and sail each opponent in turn. This introduces a set of tactics where the objective is not merely to get across the finish line first but to assure that enough of your teammates finish ahead of the boats from the other team.

"Team racing is much more exciting than regular racing," sailor Abbott Reeve said Monday. "You try and hurt the other guy as much as possible by making him sail where he doesn't want to go, while your teammates cross the finish line, and then you try to get back before him."

Harvard's four entries in the Fowle Trophy were Reeve and Phil DeNormandie, Robbie Doyle and David Brownlee. Charlie Koch and Rud Istvan, and captain. Joe Worth and Doug Libby.

Round Robin

In the round robin, M.I.T. won six and lost none, while Harvard. Coast Guard, and U.R.I. were four and two. Harvard trounced U.R.I. in the first round of the sailoffs, and then beat M.I.T., 2-1, in the best of three series.

"You need a steady breeze in team sailing for your tactics to work well," coach Mike Horn said yesterday. "But on Saturday the wind was so light and flukey that even when you did what you were supposed to, there was no guarantee your team would win.

"On Sunday, however, the wind was steady and we romped over everyone," he added.

Harvard took fourth in another team sailing regatta, a three-crew event for the Staake Trophy Saturday and Sunday at M.I.T. Boston University, sacrificing the Fowle Trophy, put its best skippers in the Staake Trophy and won it handily.

Harvard's three crews were George Putnam and Alfred Poor, Doug Allen and John Bowers, and Dave Little and Steve Glovinsky.