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Rowing enthusiasts who watched closely also raised eyebrows when the Cambridge coxswain, John S. K. Hinde, started his boat with the command, "Forward all . . . paddle." American coxswains yell, "Ready...
...racing shells glided to the starting line on the Thames last week, the Cambridge coxswain alerted his crew with the traditional British command: "Come forward . . . Are you ready . . . Paddle!" From the Oxford shell sounded a crisp "Okay, gang, let's go!" For the first time in its 97 years of racing Cambridge, the Oxford crew had a U.S. cox: spectacled, 21-year-old George Alexander Carver (Yale...
...Coxswain Carver's gang tried hard. But they didn't go very far. The favored Cambridge crew skimmed off to a six-length lead in the first half-mile of the horseshoe-shaped 4¼-mile course. The heavier Oxford shell, fighting the choppy, flooded stream, began shipping water from the start, soon swamped and gurgled to a stop...
Three men were also available to replace 1950's graduated captain-coxswain Bill Leavitt. Except for the annoying vicissitudes of weather and water conditions, crew practice during March and early April should have been a matter of polishing and physical training rather than selection...
...former Yale coxswain, George Alexander Carver who found himself forced to cry "this is ridiculous" after five strokes. Then the shell slid under. Carver had twice unsuccessfully piloted the Elis against a Harvard crew but never before did he lose under such ignominious circumstances. The opposing Cambridge shell also almost bubbled under into the choppy Thames...