Word: coxswain
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...Whiteside finally was cornered and admitted that he was thinking of the problem that surrounded the selection of the one passenger in the Varsity boat -- the lone member of the crew who doesn't work his way. To the ordinary observers the little coxswain is simply so much excess baggage, probably chosen because his weight is nearest the zero of any of the contenders. They admit that he's the only member of the crew who can see where he is going, and the only one who isn't looking at life backwards during a race. But that just about...
...beat start. Oxford edged away to a half-length lead, held it for a while. The slower stroking but more powerful Cambridge sweep-swingers pulled alongside, passed at the mile. Wide open water separated them after two miles, and Cambridge, sure of victory, insolently slowed down. The little Oxford coxswain signaled for more speed. Up went the beat, but his men, badly fagged, could not close the gap, At three miles, Cambridge was three lengths ahead. In nearby London suburbs the chimney pots shook from the cheering, as Cambridge swept over the line in record time...
...eight was a totally different from that which defeated Yale over the four mile course earlier in the season, for it consisted entirely of Junior Varsity and Freshman oarsmen. The crimson had earlier beaten the University of California at Los Angeles to qualify for the finals. The Harvard boating; Coxswain, Bissell; Stroke, Drury; 7, Swayze; 6, Robertson; 5, Pierce; 4, Beane; 3, Atherton; 2, Whipple; Bow, Nickerson...
...also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime president of the New York Athletic Club; Horace Binney, retired surgeon-in-chief of the Boston City Hospital; Charles Page Perin (captain), Manhattan consulting engineer. Dr. Sumner Coolidge of Middleboro, Mass., and little Coxswain Sabin Pond Sanger, retired banker of Brookline. Mass. They disembarked at the Metropolitan Racing Club, brashly promised to row up the Charles again...
...been waiting for. This time when the Harvard beat went up, the bow of the Harvard shell began to creep along Yale's gunwhale slowly & steadily until the boats were even half a mile from the finish. They stayed that way for quarter of a mile until Coxswain Bissell called for a Harvard stroke of 37. He held it for six beats, turned his head to make sure that Yale had cracked, and then, crazily excited, stood up and waved his arms above his head as his boat crossed the line-winner for the third year in succession, with...