Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crew coxswain is a wizened creature, pale and weak from worry and reducing. All he needs is a shrill voice and a pair of skinny hands to work the rudder. Yet it is he who gives commands to the eight hulking beasts ahead of him. St. Bonaventure College plays football with a coxswain instead of a quarterback. Francis Flynn badgered and generalled ten great brutes to a 57-0 victory over Alfred. Despairing of their clumsy, earnest efforts, he himself carried the ball 310 yards, once for 93 and touchdown. He is a quarterback, captain of the eleven, weighs...
Rowing in choppy water too rough for fast time, the Freshman crew stroked by P. H. Watts '31, covered the one mile downstream course in the Basin yesterday afternoon four feet ahead of S. W. Swaim's crew to win over its five competitors. The seating of the crews was the same as in the race last week, except that the strokes were assigned different crews...
...first year hoats were bunched most of the way, with only a few feet between the first five at the finish. John Lawrence brought his crew across the line third, with T. N. Perkins, J. W. Fox, and J. M. Byrue following in the order listed...
...first University crew race this fall yesterday afternoon resulted in a victory for the crew stroked by L. D. Parker '30, with the crew stroked by John Watts '28 finishing second of the five shells that went over the two-and-a-half mile downstream course. No time for the race was given out,. The crew stroked by C. McK. Norton '29 finished third, that by T. H. Eliot '28, fourth, and that by Guthrie Willard '30, fifth...
...winning crew was seated as follows: Stroke, L. D. Parker '30; 7, Guy Murchie '29; 6, Charles Mason '30; 5, C M. Comstock; 4, Rodgers Donaldson '30; 3, J. W. Dunlop '28; 2, Shubrick Clymer '29; bow, Rodney Tilt '29; cox, L. L. Wadsworth...