Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi, 4 ft. 8 in., 76 lb., is shorter and lighter than a jockey or the coxswain of a crew...
...Columbia had won its early season sprint races so easily. But there was a rumor that the boat had gone stale. Cornell, with baldheaded, 30-year-old Pete McManus in the waist of the shell and seven other heavy, experienced men bending to the barks of big-voiced little Coxswain Burke, had a splendid chance. Syracuse, with six veterans and the lightest crew in the race, was in the outside lane, least protected from the wind. Washington, having beaten California, seemed to be the best of the three Western crews. Wisconsin rows only in the Poughkeepsie race and this year...
...from the starting line dark and smooth as a mirror, dimpled by the rain. The crews splashed away to a fair start, with the Navy ahead for a second, then Pennsylvania, then Washington. Washington kept the lead and pushed three lengths ahead of the Navy in the first mile. Coxswain Burke was keeping the Cornell boat close to Syracuse. The Columbia boat was going badly, rowing a high, laborious beat without much run between the strokes...
...Navy boat passed Washington at the start of the last mile and Coxswain Burke told his sweating men to row, row, row after that Navy shell. The last half mile was a wildly exciting match between the two, with Washington struggling to keep up with Cornell. The Navy stroke, Ray Hunter, could see both boats laboring along behind him. When Cornell began to gain he sent the Navy stroke up to 40 and kept it smooth across the finish, which he crossed to the absurdly disconsolate hooting of a destroyer's fog horn. Cornell was only a length behind, Washington...
...than a length behind Yale & Princeton. Yale was rowing about 36 to Cornell's 28 or 29-an almost insultingly slow beat for a two-mile race. Princeton kept up a fatiguing high beat for the first mile and had begun to tire when Jimmy Burke, the Cornell coxswain, began to raise his stroke. At the mile and one-half, (here was a fraction of a second when it seemed that Cornell might lose. Wilson faltered, but Burke splashed water on his face. At the finish Cornell was two lengths ahead of Yale, five ahead of Princeton. Harvard...