Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...staff which will aid Brown throughout the year has not yet been named. His assistants during the fall period will be F. R. Sullivan '27, coxswain of the University crew last year, H. P. Travis '27, coxswain of the 1927 Freshman outfit, and R. W. Ladd '27, who rowed at No. 3 last spring...
Fall practice will be held under the direct supervision of Coach Brown. He will take full personal charge of the heavy crews and will oversee the work of the 150 pounders. No assistants have yet been appointed. F. R. Sullivan '27, coxswain of last year's victorious University eight, and R. W. Ladd '27, who rowed at No. 3, will aid Brown in his work this fall...
...Coach Brown, who after a successful preliminary season in his first year as moulder of the varsity rowing destinies, reaches the objective and critical test of the season tomorrow. The third reason, and rather more important than psychology and coach, is the crew of eight oarsmen and a coxswain who will carry the Crimson colors at historic New London. The Harvard eight this year is pre-eminently worthy of confidence. The unusual size, strength and speed of its members we can understand, but there are other more intangible attributes suggested by the sporting experts by terms and phrases such...