Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freshman race Washington led from the start, won without raising one-half beat until the last half-mile. The Washington junior varsity finished first, cutting the three-mile course record by 34 sec. In the varsity race Washington entered the same eight stalwarts-with a new coxswain-who triumphed at Poughkeepsie in 1936 and went on to take the Olympic sprint title. This time the Huskies got away late as Navy skimmed out to lead for the first mile and a half. Washington upped its stroke gradually, nosed ahead at two miles, easily won by four lengths in record-breaking...
...crew will line up with Alexander Comstock as stroke, Jim Tyson 7, Phil Dean 6, John Senior 5, Peter Burr 4, George Overton 3, Buzz Hovey 2, Dave Scull bow, and Alan Fox coxswain. Comstock, Burr and Overton are the Freshmen...
...fast start in this race was almost spoiled when the Eliot coxswain got his bearings mixed and swung onto the Kirkland eight; only Haines' yell and quick pull on the tiller ropes averted a nasty crash and the Elephants dropped back about a third of a length while this was going...
...concertmaster is to an orchestra what the stroke oar is to a crew. He sits closest to the conductor (coxswain), takes his orders direct, sets an example to the other players. NBC sent for Mischakoff because, when Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct Radio's proudest symphonic programs, the NBC Orchestra must have a stroke of the calibre to which the old maestro is accustomed...
...taking Richard Pocock with him. He was succeeded at Washington by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, who brought the West Coast its first Poughkeepsie Regatta winner in 1923, went to the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. Currently, Washington crews are coached by Al Ulbrickson, whose major rival is Ky Ebright, Washington coxswain in 1916-17, now head coach at California. Between them, Washington and California have won the Poughkeepsie Regatta, in which Yale, Harvard and Princeton are the only major crews that do not compete, eight times in the last 13 races. California crews won the Olympic championship...