Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Paul Hoy Helms, 67, millionaire Los Angeles baker, would-be athlete (he tried out for all the varsity teams at Syracuse University, finally made the crew as substitute coxswain) and impassioned sports buff, who founded the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936, built a $350,000 museum in 1948 to enshrine relics of sports heroes (e.g., the shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy...
Harvey Love and his eight varsity oarsmen plus coxswain are deciding whether to enter the Olympic try-outs which will be held on Lake Onondaga at Syracuse on June 28--30. The winner of this competition will represent the United States at the summer Olympics, which begin on November 22, at Melbourne, Australia...
Varsity heavies Fritz Schwarz, stroke; Carter Harrison, seven; Jeff Locke, six; Ted McCagg, five; Charlie Atkinson, four; Captain Jack Lapsley, three; Art Hodges, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Peter Milton, coxswain...
Freshman heavies: Mark Hoffman, stroke; Peter Tulloch, seven; Jim Leonard, six; Jim McClennen, five; Townsend Swayze, four; Paul Wohlford, three; Claude Nuzum, two; Jim Meade, bow; Barrow Peale, coxswain...
...dusk Saturday afternoon when the varsity heavy coxswain Pete Milton called "Way Enough" and the Crimson oarsmen slumped on their oars after beating M.I.T. and Boston University by two lengths on the Charles River. A girl in shorts and a blue shirt fell overboard from the excursion boat "Let's Go," perhaps from enthusiasm over the crew's first victory of the season, or perhaps for other reasons. At any rate, she and the majority of the 1,200 spectators gathered by the M.I.T. boathouse could agree with varsity coach Harvey Love that the crew had rowed well...