Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article, the first of a serres on crew, was written especially for the Crimson by C. H. Pforzheimer '28, assistant coach and former University coxswain...
...handling either a port or a starboard oar, which facility doubles the man's chance to find a place in one of the varsity boats. In addition to this shifting, the head coach adhered to his policy of rotating various men in the stroke position and also in the coxswain's seat. As in the past under Coach Brown, the ultimate choice of a cox will rest with the oarsmen themselves...
...Nephew of famed "Baseball Tsar" Landis, senior at Columbia. He entered the University when he was 15, wore short pants and black ribbed stockings through his Freshman year. His ambition to be a coxswain was frustrated by his mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual...
Eight oarsmen and a coxswain from the University of California smashed the Olympic record for 2,000 metres in the semifinals, then pulled a little more than half a length ahead of the shell of the Thames Rowing Club (London) to win the most important rowing event of the IXth Olympiad. Followed a U.S. victory in the majority of the water events, with Martha Norelius, Albina Ossipowitch, Helen Meany, George Kojac, Pete Desjardines, John Weissmuller as kingpins...
...California and Yale. They were going along at a high beat of about 40 strokes a minute; yet the two crews seemed tied together, side-by-side, by a rubber band that would stretch just a little. A short race (2,000 metres), it was soon to end. Coxswain Stewart of Yale pulled out his red handkerchief, which told the eight boys facing him that they would have to sprint like mad. But they had been sprinting all along, and so had California. The rubber band contracted to a quarter of a length, at the finish. . . . It was decided...