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Ollie Iselin, Ted Renolds, and Clarence Asp, veterans of last year's crew and juniors all, are strong contenders for the first shell. Bill Leavitt, last year's coxswain will succeed himself at the rudder and is also captain for 1950. George Hewitt, and Buffy Bohlen, J.V.'s last year, are working for varsity slots...
Duccy, who was varsity coxswain in his undergraduate years, held the first practice for his intramural oarsmen the day before spring vacation. Since then he has drilled his boats assiduously except on Saturdays and Sundays...
...lineup for the season was Row, Kathn Smith, number two ear Henry Gardiner, three Ronald Dick, four, William P. Wodd, five, Walter Aikman, six, Erie Osborne, seven Mike Moras, stroke Oliver Scholle, and coxswain, Joshus Twilly
Using a 36-to-the-minute stroke, Princeton spurted into the lead. Harvard's 130-pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open...
Once the shell has settled at its regular pace, the main problem is for every man to concentrate on form, power, and timing. The coxswain maintains the latter rudder handles, saving his voice to tell the stroke what beat he is setting and where his boast stands in relation to the opposition...