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Kent is known among U. S. preparatory school boys as a place where you have to make your own bed and where the headmaster is a bug on rowing. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, the headmaster, was coxswain of the Columbia crew in 1895. Ten boatloads of Kent boys row every spring afternoon on the Housatonic River. In 1927, and again this year, Father Sill took his best oars to England...
...Princeton University, the 150-lb. crews are coached by Gordon G. Sikes, a brainy, mighty-shouldered little man on crutches, coxswain of the 1916 Princeton varsity. Many a Princeton man will tell you Gordon Sikes is a better judge of rowing than Head Coach Charles ("Chuck") Logg. Coach Sikes took his 150-pounders to the Henley this year. They met Kent in the quarterfinal...
...crew that comes out of its starting spirit first is usually master of a race. Harvard was a nose in front at the start last week on the Thames in New London, but little Gillespie, the Yale coxswain, was shouting less often into the face of Woodruff Tappen, the big stroke. Yale cut its beat to 32, began to gain as soon as Harvard dropped from 40. It was a slate-grey afternoon; on the varnished river the fleet of yachts strung with pennants, crowded with people in summer clothes, stood in silence as the boats swept past the half...
Stroke, A. H. Parker Jr. '32; 7. E. L. Millard Jr. '31; 6, Lawrence Grinnell Jr. '31; 5, A. D. Robertson '33: 4. J. C. Rice Jr. '33; 3, Amor Hollingsworth Jr. '31; 2, J. A. Luetkemeyer '33: bow. A. L. Nickerson Jr. '33; coxswain, T. H. Dickerson...
Jayvees--stroke, Armstrong; 7, Buckley; 6, Donaldson; 5, Veeder; 4, Hovey; 3, Robinson; 2, McKesson; bow, Page: coxswain, Holmes...