Word: coxswain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experience, however, the charges of Farmer Tom Bolles should have a long edge. Lyman, Hallett Whitman, and Dave Challinor are rowing for their eighth spring, and for Bus Curwen, Richardson, and Pop Jenks this is the seventh. Johny Erskine and Scho Andrews are rowing for the third for coxswain Tommy Boynton, a total of 56 years of rowing experience...
...Here coxswain Caleb Brokaw called for twenty hard ones, and the Crimson, still understroking Yale, shot ahead. Princeton eventually passed the Elis, but Abbot was never pressed, finishing a length and a half in front of the Tigers...
Among the offers he received was one from a Radcliffe girl who thought the bagpipes might relieve her boredom, one from the third Eliot House crew which wanted the coxswain to exhort the men with them, and another from Huey Livingston, the Scotch janitor of Memorial Hall...
...Saturday the Varsity lined up with lightweight Tommy Boynton as coxswain, Bus Curwen at stroke, Dave Challinor at seven, Hallett Whitman at six, and Captain Ted Lyman at five. The bow four, however, was greatly altered. Johnny Erskine had moved from his usual two slide to number four. Scho Andrews, out of last spring's '44 eight, took over the number three seat, and Juniors Johnny Richardson and Pop Jenks accounted for the two bow positions...
...Junior Varsity seating had Phi Bete Bryce Seligman at stroke, Bill Sohier, 7; Gerry Prince, 6; Mike Marshall, 5; Chuggy Lamson, 4; Ford King, 3; Dave Noyes, 2; and Reggie Fitz, bow. Dick Palmer and Jimmy Ducey are still continuing their struggle of last spring for the coxswain's seat...