Word: coxswain
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...most startling surge came in rowing, a sport once dominated by Americans, since revolutionized by European advances in technique and equipment. Washington's Ed Ferry teamed up with California's Conn Findlay and Kent Mitchell to win a gold medal for pairs with coxswain; the U.S. picked up a silver medal in the double sculls, a bronze in the coxless fours. Darkness had already fallen over the Toda rowing course by the time the big race for eight-oared shells got under way, and flares burst overhead as crews from six nations stroked their way down...
...coxed-pair crew won a gold medal; the pairs-without-coxswain took a silver...
Harry Pollock, captain of last spring's Harvard crew, Tom Pollock, Jim Tew, and captain-elect Paul Gunderson were the oarsmen for the U.S. Ed Washburn was the coxswain...
...United States' "coxed fours" crew, made up of four oarsmen and a coxswain from Harvard's national champion eight, was eliminated from the Olympic Games in Tokyo yesterday...
Harry and Tom Pollock, Jim Tew, Paul Gunderson, and coxswain Ed Washburn make up the first four-oared boat from Harvard to enter the Olympics since 1936. The earlier crew lost to a German boat...