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Every coach at the 52nd annual Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta agreed: Navy had the best crew around. Even Navy's professionally pessimistic Coach Rusty Callow admitted he expected to win. Not since their plebe regatta on Lake Marietta, Ohio, in 1951. had his boys been beaten; as a varsity crew they had won 28 straight races. Said Callow: "They have an 'engine room' [Stroke Oar Ed Stevens and No. 7, Wayne Frye] that is one of the greatest that has ever rowed in a shell." As far as Callow was concerned, his boatload of oarsmen had only...
Right from the start the Navy crew lived up to Coach Callow's confidence. It jumped to a quick lead, moved past the mile pole stroking a smooth and powerful 30, a long boatlength ahead of Cornell. Pulling hard to hold second place, ahead of the Washington Huskies, Cornell moved up in the last 100 yards, but Navy was home free, winner by a length and a half...
...This is the greatest crew I ever coached," said Callow. Then he shook his head in frustration: "There ought to be a law against graduation...
When Rusty Callow went to Annapolis four years ago, after 23 years as crew coach for Pennsylvania, he found the wide-open waters of the Severn River and twelve boatloads of brawny oarsmen. Coach Callow made the most, of it. His freshman crew that first spring in 1951 had tough luck at the intercollegiate rowing regatta: they capsized at the starting line. Since then, that same crew, still almost intact, has shown its wake to the best crews, become the Olympic champions of 1952. On the Potomac last week, in the Eastern Sprint Regatta championship at the Olympic distance...
...half-length lead. Then he let his huskies settle back to a 33 beat, holding it there while Navy gradually pulled away. It was no contest. Navy won No. 26 handily, beating Yale by half a length, Penn by two, with Harvard, Wisconsin and Cornell trailing. Coach Callow, 63, was elated but still claimed to be worrying about his alma mater, Washington, which last week whipped its top West Coast rival, California, by six lengths. Navy, now the Eastern sprint champions for the third straight year, faces two more tough tests: the Western championship (without Washington...