Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger Wilcox '41 and Chapin Wallour '42 skippered the Harvard dinghy team into fifth position in the collegiate sail boat races held yesterday on the Charles. Williams won with 38 points, as M.I.T. and Princeton trailed closely with 35 and 33 points respectively...
...Farley's boat: Elliott, Blatchford, Smith, Bodine, Shepley, Rothschild, Clark, Boynton...
...hard a race for the Juniors, and they won decisively, but their form was almost ragged at times. The catching was not good, and all in all they were anything but a polished crew. Not only that, but they were paced by a relatively inexperienced stroke. Meanwhile the Senior boat pulled through evenly and showed excellent form, but they were left in the lunch...
...another time Tom Bolles pitted three class crews against each other. In this race the 1941 crew won, but once again it would almost have been called obvious from a quick glance at the boatings. Stroked by Sherm Gray, the Junior boat was made up with a good many members of last year's varsity. In addition the eight was enhanced by the presence of Behn Riggs who felt that he was unable to row last year what with the press of scholastic work...
...indefiniteness of the Bolles findings brings to mind the statement made by Mr. Meikleham who was for many years a race official at New London. He said that the choice of any one type of crew man for a boat was almost entirely a matter of contemporary style, and that the best crew man did not necessarily have to confine himself to any particular build. His knowledge was based not only on his long association with crew but upon the fact that while he was a Captain of the Columbia crew he helped to nurse the sport...