Earlier this year, Tony Leadley, 96, received a call out of the blue from Robert Treharne Jones, the archivist for the famous Leander ... rowed in the Boat Race. In the 1950s, rowing had to ...
"That Leander boat is damn tough, and they had a title to defend. Harvard wasn't overconfident. Maybe American rowing fans were." Several hours later, after Penn had beaten MIT to reach the finals ...