Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suprisingly, Harvard pulled to an early ead over Columbia, a team noted for its start. From there, coxswain Tim Claflin set a very high stroke and the Crimson gained even more on Columbia hrough the rest of the race...
...most startling surge came in rowing, a sport once dominated by Americans, since revolutionized by European advances in technique and equipment. Washington's Ed Ferry teamed up with California's Conn Findlay and Kent Mitchell to win a gold medal for pairs with coxswain; the U.S. picked up a silver medal in the double sculls, a bronze in the coxless fours. Darkness had already fallen over the Toda rowing course by the time the big race for eight-oared shells got under way, and flares burst overhead as crews from six nations stroked their way down...
...coxed-pair crew won a gold medal; the pairs-without-coxswain took a silver...
Harry Pollock, captain of last spring's Harvard crew, Tom Pollock, Jim Tew, and captain-elect Paul Gunderson were the oarsmen for the U.S. Ed Washburn was the coxswain...
...United States' "coxed fours" crew, made up of four oarsmen and a coxswain from Harvard's national champion eight, was eliminated from the Olympic Games in Tokyo yesterday...