Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sponge boats would go out for a month or two and come back with their fluffy treasures of the deep and, some said, with additional crew members. New faces moved against the bright background, new voiced joined in the native songs...
...following article concerning crew coxswains was written for the Crimson by C. H. Pforzheimer '28, coxswain of the University crew last year and now, a Freshman crew coach...
...start of the present crew season, the problem of coxswains is more serious than has been the case during the last few years. There are two reasons for this. In the first place there are no men in college with coxing experience on any University crews inasmuch as the University and Second crew coxes were both Seniors last year. In the second place, there are no experienced stroke oars available, since the graduation of Captain Watts of last year's crew leaves a gap that will have to be filled by a man without four-mile experience. The problem...
Rotating the coxes from one crew to another and from heavy to 150-lb. squad will be continuous from the time that the weather permits eights out on the water until the University crew is announced right after the Spring Recess. Selections at the end of this competition are made by the oarsmen themselves on the basis of ability and personality. Each crew is after the man with whom they can work best and who, in turn, can get the most out of the eight which he coxes...
...crew season presents an unusual opportunity for inexperienced men in the University who weight 125 pounds or less to make some good crew; and in his talk on Monday evening Coach Brown emphasized the desirability of having every available man try out. The same is even more true of the Freshmen as there is generally a shortage of steersmen owing to the large number of dormitory crews. It is interesting to note that during the last six years only one Freshmen cox had experience before coming to college. Notices about the Coxswains' School will appear in the CRIMSON shortly...