Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whiteside finally was cornered and admitted that he was thinking of the problem that surrounded the selection of the one passenger in the Varsity boat -- the lone member of the crew who doesn't work his way. To the ordinary observers the little coxswain is simply so much excess baggage, probably chosen because his weight is nearest the zero of any of the contenders. They admit that he's the only member of the crew who can see where he is going, and the only one who isn't looking at life backwards during a race. But that just about...
There's quite a lot more than that to being a coxswain, however, according to no less an authority than Mr. Whiteside who stated quite emphatically that the tiny tikes can make or break a crew. They have to know how to get the most out of the men. A good coxswain must know when to coax and plead with his oarsmen, when to encourage and when to threaten. By his skillfull handling of the tiller ropes he can save precious yards that may mean the difference between victory and defeat in an important race. He must be a strategist...
...beat start. Oxford edged away to a half-length lead, held it for a while. The slower stroking but more powerful Cambridge sweep-swingers pulled alongside, passed at the mile. Wide open water separated them after two miles, and Cambridge, sure of victory, insolently slowed down. The little Oxford coxswain signaled for more speed. Up went the beat, but his men, badly fagged, could not close the gap, At three miles, Cambridge was three lengths ahead. In nearby London suburbs the chimney pots shook from the cheering, as Cambridge swept over the line in record time...
...eight was a totally different from that which defeated Yale over the four mile course earlier in the season, for it consisted entirely of Junior Varsity and Freshman oarsmen. The crimson had earlier beaten the University of California at Los Angeles to qualify for the finals. The Harvard boating; Coxswain, Bissell; Stroke, Drury; 7, Swayze; 6, Robertson; 5, Pierce; 4, Beane; 3, Atherton; 2, Whipple; Bow, Nickerson...
...also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime president of the New York Athletic Club; Horace Binney, retired surgeon-in-chief of the Boston City Hospital; Charles Page Perin (captain), Manhattan consulting engineer. Dr. Sumner Coolidge of Middleboro, Mass., and little Coxswain Sabin Pond Sanger, retired banker of Brookline. Mass. They disembarked at the Metropolitan Racing Club, brashly promised to row up the Charles again...