Word: coxswaine
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...Sulivan '27 who was coxswain on last year's University crew, and coached last fall, directed the rudder for the crew stroked by B. J. Harrison '29, and C. H. Pforzheimer '28 guided the eight stroked by Captain Watts...
...following article on rowing at Oxford in general, and the strategy of bumping races in particular was written 'or the Crimson by F.W.P. Chadwick, Davison Scholar at the University this year and a former Oxford coxswain...
...means penniless. They have a home at Syracuse, another at Southport, Conn.; frequently stop at the Stratfield Hotel, Bridgeport. Their son, Robert F. Weed, married Martha Lashar, daughter of Walter B. Lashar, president of the American Chain Co., and cousin of famed Thomas Lashar, onetime (1916) Yale coxswain...
...University football team, and heavyweight champion in the University bouts last year, will be back in the ring this winter. John Parkinson Jr. '29, middleweight contender for the championship in the bouts last March, will also be boxing this year. F. R. Sullivan 1G.B., the coxswain of the University crew which defeated Yale last spring, did well in the bantam weight class last season, and is expected to offer strong competition for the title in the final bouts...
...crew coxswain is a wizened creature, pale and weak from worry and reducing. All he needs is a shrill voice and a pair of skinny hands to work the rudder. Yet it is he who gives commands to the eight hulking beasts ahead of him. St. Bonaventure College plays football with a coxswain instead of a quarterback. Francis Flynn badgered and generalled ten great brutes to a 57-0 victory over Alfred. Despairing of their clumsy, earnest efforts, he himself carried the ball 310 yards, once for 93 and touchdown. He is a quarterback, captain of the eleven, weighs...