Word: coxswaine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first day at Harvard, in 1963, coxswain Paul Hoffman walked into Newell Boathouse and tacked up a Mexican travel poster on the locker room door. Almost five years later, in one of the most dramatic races in Olympic trial history, Hoffman and his Newell comrades edged Penn's eight by five one-hundredths of a second to earn a trip to the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City...
...consequences can be disastrous, all of which leads to the next point: where to watch the races. Sweeping curves--either leading into or coming out of narrow-arched bridges--almost guarantee that some gutsy coxswain will make his move, only to lock oars with another crew or be driven into a bridge abutment. Good seats from which to watch all the action can be found anywhere along the river between the Weeks and Eliot Bridges...
...first ten strokes looked strong and Brown faded fast," coxswain Ted Tsomides '82 said. The stroke of the boat was 43 at the start, then settled to a 36 pace for the rest of the race, finishing...
...oarswomen, after only ten less than auspicious practice starts, started strongly, and when they settled from a rate of 39 strokes per minute to a full-power 32, coxswain Rosemarie Sabatino was sitting on MIT's three-seat...
Sleepy, nervous "good mornings" echo in the strangely quiet locker room, and you steel yourself for the still-cold March air over the river. The rest of your crew arrives and the coxswain organizes you for taking out the shell: Four-man shells today. Your bare feet welcome the warmth of the sun-bathed dock, and the boat slides into the water easily...