Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile and a half. Washington upped its stroke gradually, nosed ahead at two miles, easily won by four lengths in record-breaking time, with Navy and Cornell second and third. Gloriously climaxed was the career of Washington's eight varsity regulars, U. S. and Olympic champions, the greatest crew ever produced by proud Coach Al Ulbrickson...
...scholarly Alvin Martin Ulbrickson the rise of Washington on the water is a matter of lifelong personal interest. He was born within sight of the Husky boathouse four years before the late famed Hiram Conibear became crew coach in 1907. He grew tough rowing daily two miles across Lake Washington to and from high school in Seattle. Entering Washington in 1922, he at once turned out for crew, rowed in the freshman shell that took second place at Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow...
Handsome, reticent, unexcitable, Coach Ulbrickson never reprimands his men; they learn their faults from his good-natured, critical banter. He rarely smokes, never drinks, forbids swearing during crew practice. He methodically records the conditions, time and distance of each day's rowing. To avoid overtraining he ceases coaching a week before the major races. His favorite starting-line goad: "It doesn't mean anything to think you're good-go out and prove it." Upon seeing Washington complete a second sweep at Poughkeepsie last week, Rusty Callow, seated nearby on the observation train, grabbed Al Ulbrickson...
...powerful stroke, let Yale spend itself in a gallant first two miles. Midway up the Thames, Harvard led by a length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked by Jim Chace, plowed impressively on to victory and a new course record of 20 min. 2 sec. for the four miles upstream...
Skipper Jim Lovett (Warner Baxter) decided to quit slaving after the Sunday morning when, on his way to get drunk, he met Nancy (Elizabeth Allan) on her way to church. Failing to share his reformation, the Slave Ship crew shanghaied him and his bride, obtained the keys to the gun locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney...