Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Randy Harrison holds the third slot, and Neddie Bliss, brother of Bill Bliss, varsity hockey and crew star, goes at number two. AI Dann gets the nod for the bow seat, while John Pratt, a Groton man, will cox...
...wouldn't go back to the working life for anything," says Bill Leavitt, cox and captain of the 1951 varsity crew, who's now starting his first spring season as coach of the freshman heavies...
With the event still two months away, the Olympic Committee yesterday announced the advance sale of tickets to the rowing trials to be held July 3, 4, and 6 on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester. The trials will consist of races in seven events, single skulling, double, pair oared with cox, pair oared without cox, four oared with cox, four oared without cox, and eight oared shell...
...Cox's descendants have been campaigning ever since to clear his record. His son, William Cox, was expelled from Lafayette College for striking a professor who called his father a coward, according to the family. Half a century ago, an unsuccessful effort was made to get Congress to reverse the court-martial verdict. When Theodore Roosevelt, in his Naval War of 1812, said that Lieut. Cox had acted "basely," one of Cox's descendants protested so vigorously that Roosevelt apologized, and corrected his account in a later edition...
Just before World War II, Electus D. Litchfield, a Manhattan architect who is Cox's great-grandson, appealed to President Franklin Roosevelt, who proved sympathetic but without any legal power to reverse the 1814 court-martial. Two years ago Litchfield persuaded Georgia's Representative Eugene Cox (no kin) to introduce a resolution restoring William Cox to the rank of third lieutenant as of his death in 1874. This was the resolution before the House Armed Services Committee last week. The outlook is that Litchfield, now 80, and 30-odd other descendants may see the family name cleared...