Word: coxswain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects for a strong University crew next year are very bright, as the eight will lose only three men by graduation. J. E. Waid '10, E. C. Bacon '10, and R. Whitney '11, who is taking a three-year course, will leave College. McG. A. King '10, coxswain, will also graduate this spring. To fill the three places left vacant in the eight there are several promising men in the University fours, among whom the most prominent are R. F. Hooper '11 and G. H. Balch '12. The material coming from the Freshman eight is only fair, with the exception...
...University crew started practice last fall with bright prospects inspite of the loss by graduation of Captain E. C. Cutler '09, L. K. Lunt '09, R. M. Faulkner '09, and F. M. Blagden '09, coxswain. During most of the fall practice Cutler stroked the eight, although Newton, who stroked last year's Freshman eight, was tried out at times. The absence at 5 of Withington, who played football during the fall season, necessitated changing Bacon from 4 to 5. Newton, Strong, Leslie, and Balch, from last year's Freshman crew, were the new men tried out in the boat. When...
Kempton coxed the University crew, as King, the regular coxswain, was ill. Coach Wray rowed at 2 for several short stretches at the start to find out how the men pulled and how the boat acted under their power. Then he got into the launch and Sargent took his place...
...afternoon at 4.15 o'clock for the second Senior crew. It is absolutely necessary for the success of the Senior crew that there should be a second crew to practice with it. There will be a race for the second eights as well as for the first crews. A coxswain is also needed. H. N. PLATT...
...class. He was a great favorite, a member of the attractive clubs, which were few in those days, and he was very welcome in general society. He took much interest in rowing, and was the bow-oar in a famous four-oared boat, which rowed without a coxswain and which used to win almost invariably...