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Finding an able coxswain is a major problem for most college crew coaches. Coxswains must be strong enough to steer the shell straight, shrewd enough to detect faults in the crew's performance, aggressive enough to correct them, good-natured enough not to mind an occasional ducking for their pains. Until crew-conscious alumni start subsidizing midgets, cox-swains who fill these requirements but still weigh less than 120 Ib. will be scarcer than good halfbacks. Last week in England, crew coaches at Oxford, which hopes on March 24 to win the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first...
...years ago, the Cambridge crew rowed proudly onto the Thames with the third lightest coxswain in Boat Race history-97-lb. J. M. Ranking. Hart Massey, 19, a graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto, now in his first year at Balliol, is less than 4 ft. tall, weighs 56 Ib. Using Coxswain Massey would give Oxford at least 50 Ib. weight advantage. It would also mean building a shell specially weighted in the stern. If Coxswain Massey were suddenly unavailable on Boat Race Day, only alternatives would be i) using a shell other than the one the crew...
...Rollins is proud of Sally Stearns (TIME, June 22), who coxswained our varsity crew when it beat Manhattan College on the Harlem. The first girl coxswain that ever steered an intercollegiate race won her "R" by sheer merit and not by way of a publicity stunt. For three years she never missed a clay at the crew house, substituting for male coxswains whenever they didn't show up. Last year she was the best coxswain available, but the coach and Athletic Committee feared ridicule from "turned-up-nosed" males if she was permitted to participate in what had always...
...start, then yield the lead to California. Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
Stroke Thomas Judge of Manhattan College's crew reluctantly admitted to that the coxswain of the Rollins College crew that beat Manhattan last fortnight was a girl - Sally Stearns, 110-lb. brunette from Peterboro, N. H. "Gee," he said, "you'd never have guessed it to look...