Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leavitt begins his second year as Yardling heavy coach, after finishing last season with only one loss, that by a deck length. "But I don't think much about last year's boat," he says. I'm too wrapped up here. We've got a big hurdle to jump when we meet Princeton this afternoon. Right now they're the best in the East...
...boat he will send down the Charles against Princeton has been together most of the spring, with only a couple of shifts. Steve Ells, powerful ex-Belmont Hill oarsman, switched from port to starboard after a month on the water. He's now in seven spot, behind captain and stroke Ed Mathews. One of three on the crew from the West Coast, Mathews had never rowed, much less stroked, before coming to Harvard...
Since its completion in 1901, the boat house has suffered from fires nearly every year. In 1925 a mysterious fire started in the lounge upstairs open only to varsity crew members. Firemen claimed that the blaze was started by a cigarette, but the coaches naturally refused to believe that any crew member would smoke, especially in sacred territory. They maintained that a nest-building bird flew in with the lighted Lucky...
...where the awards won at Henley, England and Red Top at Yale are carefully preserved. Banners and cups adorn the room, and old crew members returning to the lounge may look through scrap books for stories of their younger, more heroic days. Each spring, visiting crews also redecorate the boat house; some of them specialize in painting a huge "Y" on the front piazza, others prefer "M.I.T...
...rickety house seems doomed to a premature end. Even though the termites will spare the building for another decade, it may fall victim to highway progress. Massachusetts plans another link in its great highway chain--a cloverleaf--right on the site of the Newell Boat House...