Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Yale coxswain, George Alexander Carver who found himself forced to cry "this is ridiculous" after five strokes. Then the shell slid under. Carver had twice unsuccessfully piloted the Elis against a Harvard crew but never before did he lose under such ignominious circumstances. The opposing Cambridge shell also almost bubbled under into the choppy Thames...
Douglas M. Fouquet: Dunster; President, CRIMSON; Junior Usher; Publicity Chairman, P.B.H.; Freshman Red Book; Freshman Coxswain...
...came over him gradually. When he was packed off to Phillips Exeter Academy from his home near Catfish Creek in Iowa, he became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
Soon afterwards, however, Bolles restored the crew to the old order of; Claney Asp, bow; Ken Keniston, two; Ollie Iselin, three; Ted Reynolds, four; Steve Hedberg, five; Jim Slocum, six; all-American George Gifford, seven; Louis McCagg, stroke; and Bill Leavitt, coxswain...
Yale's boating is; Michael Brewer, bow; Peter Peacock, two; Dick O'Connor, three; Plato Skouras, four; Don Knode, five; Stuart Griffing, six; Bob Jones, seven; Gates, stroke; and Byam Stevens, coxswain...