Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that all signs of ice have disappeared from the storied banks of the Charles, rowers of all descriptions are skimming across the waters, and before long, the Harvard crew will make its first official splash, and the voice of the coxswain will be heard in the land...
Freshmen coxes won't be idle during the winter either. Part of the work of a good coxswain is knowing just how well which men are rowing and which ones are slowing down the shell. Accordingly, the coxes will also work on the machines this winter...
Five veterans of the near-Olympic boat are back again--stroke Bill Curwen, Captain Frank Strong, Ted Reynolds, Don Felt, and Mike Scully. Or, putting it the other way round, there are blank spaces where Paul Knaplund, Jud Gale, and coxswain Sam Mantel once rowed...
...Only Captain Frank Strong, bowman Frank Scully, Don Felt, and Ted Reynolds will be on hand to fill their old slots in the Varsity shell, leaving Coach Bolles the problem of finding a new stroke for the third consecutive year. He must also produce three new oars and a coxswain from last year's jayvee boats...
...their side in the Olympic games. They had a bumper crop of their own athletes. At Henley-on-Thames last week, the University of California's smooth eight-oared crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway's Fana Row Club...