Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stroke Thomas Judge of Manhattan College's crew reluctantly admitted to that the coxswain of the Rollins College crew that beat Manhattan last fortnight was a girl - Sally Stearns, 110-lb. brunette from Peterboro, N. H. "Gee," he said, "you'd never have guessed it to look...
This tribute to a sporting event that annually draws from 500,000 to 1,000,000 Londoners to the banks of the Thames was written last month in Great Britain's Coming Events by J. N. Duckworth, coxswain of the Cambridge crew for the past four years. Had he been more frank and less polite, Cambridge's Coxswain Duckworth might have added that there was a time when Boat Race Day was also memorable for the boat race between his crew and Oxford's. Since 1923, however, this has not been the case. Cambridge has won regularly...
Following the first heavyweight out-fit, the second crew lined up with Hinde at stroke, Hovey 7, Burr 6, Covel 5, T. Talbot 4, Scull 3, Skarsetet 2, Cary bow and Fox as coxswain. Lawrence, Beekman, Bechler, Coquillette, Epstein, Foote, Meyer and Derby make up the third boat...
...Bridge, three miles from the start, Syracuse dropped back. Cornell and California, passing Washington, were fighting each other for the lead. The fight went on down the last mile of the river, level and murky in a late afternoon drizzle. Twenty-five strokes from the finish, California's Coxswain Reggie Watt looked at the Cornell crew and barked: "They'll beat us just the way Washington did, by six feet. . . ." Spectators on the observation train, on boats near the finish, saw Berkenkamp, the California stroke, get his beat a notch higher. An instant later, both shells shot across...
Voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by Princeton's senior class was Roger Stanley Firestone, coxswain of the varsity crew, youngest of the five sons of Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone...