Word: coxswaine
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...only five Harvard men in the Olympics--four rowers and their coxswain--started workouts in Tokyo this week, with the start of the Olympic Games just ten days away...
Technically, the victors were known as Harvard-Laconia, since the boat was composed of one member of the Laconia Rowing Association, seven Crimson varsity oarsmen, and the Harvard coxswain...
...Vesper did not figure to offer much competition to the younger col lege crews. Their average age was 26, and only the presence of two under graduate ringers from La Salle College kept it that low. The part-time coach, Allan Rosenberg, is a Philadelphia law yer. The coxswain, Robert Zimonyi, is a 46-year-old Hungarian refugee. The captain, Bill Knecht, is 34, a plumbing contractor, the father of six. But in the semifinals, Vesper shocked the experts by beating Harvard, the undefeated Eastern champion, by two lengths...
...tulip-shaped oars popularized by Germany's 1960 Olympic-winning Ratzeburg crew, the high-stroking Californians soon jumped into a boat-length lead. From then on, they unconcernedly looked back at their pursuers for the length of the Olympic-size 2,000-meter course. At the finish, the coxswain took the stroke up to 40 for kicks, and California slid across in 6 min. 31 sec. Adding insult to injury, another Western crew, the University of Washington, was second, nearly two lengths back, and exhausted Cornell was a sorely beaten third...
...remaining three are recruits from last year's JV's: junior Bob Whitney at seven, senior Ed Quattlebaum at three, and junior Geoffrey Gratwick at two. Senior Ted Washburn is in his second year as coxswain. Parker plans to stay with this combination for a while...