Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still provides interesting indications of the strength of competition for this spring. Harvard's sole first place of the day came late in the afternoon from a lightweight four, in a boat stroked by Rick Grogan and including captain Andy "Hot Rats" Narva. George Host and Todd Howard. Coxswain Paul Chessin said the race went ideally with no sag in the power...
...spite of all the training, Charlotte says that the starts of races are often scenes of mass confusion. Much depends on a cool-headed coxswain, according to Charlotte, because of the tension that mounts up while waiting for the other boats to line up for a floating start. In addition, much self-control is required during the race to avoid increasing the stroke rate individually, instead of applying each stroke harder...
...Cleve '69 Livingston will row at bow and 2, Frits '69 and Bill '71 Hobbs are at 5 and 6, Terry, a 175-pound metronome will stroke, and Paul Hoffman '69, who enraged stolid U.S. Olympic officials with his support of the black athlete protest in 1968, will be coxswain. Two other Harvard oarsmen, lightweight stroke Tony Brooks and heavyweight captain Dave Sawyier, will go to Munich either as members of the four-with-cox or as spares...
...will not be an enviable task to coach the U. S. team this summer, and it will be a less enviable task to select it. This year, for the first time in history, the American entries in the eight-oared and four-with-coxswain events will not come from a weekend of one-shot trial races, but from a carefully picked group of oarsmen from college and club eights all over the country...
This sextet will be joined by an illustrious set of Harvard graduates seeking to represent the U.S. in Munich. The alumni will be headed by Fritz and Billy Hobbs, who represented the U.S. in the 1968 Olympics. Mike and Cleve Livingstone, Monk Terry, Paul Wilson and coxswain Paul Hoffman...