Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five crews have been picked by Coach Brown to compose the University crew squad. These crews will row together until the river is free of ice, when eight men will be droped to squad...
Picking the first eight late in the season is an innovation of the new coaching regime, but one which Coach Brown has used successfully before. In former years a tentative, crew has usually been selected shortly after midyear examinations and often has remained practically intact for the entire season...
...Freshman crew managerial competition is still open...
Emphasizing the fact that inexperienced oarsmen would be given every opportunity, Coach Brown said that all through the season he would endeavor to keep his eye on the class crews even after the vacation. A. L. Hobson '24 will be again in charge of the class crews, which he assisted with last fall. C. S. Heard '25 will coach the 150 pound crew...
Some division is being made immediately, however, the large squad being divided into parts with squad "A" comprising four or five crews. On these crews will be the men who have already had experience. As far as possible these crews will row in the same order until April, but strokes and coxswains will be shifted frequently from crew to crew, and oarsmen on the other squad will be shifted to one of the first squad boats as they show improvement...