Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Haines' varsity 150-lb. crew this afternoon will be out to do the same thing Princeton did last year--capture the all-eastern 150-lb. crew crown after losing the Big Three title...
...most rewarding features of that traditionally ill-paid calling sports writing is the fine location from which its practicioners are permitted to observe any event from football to billiards. And of all sports where this custom comes in handy, crew is foremost...
...riverside spectator, watching a crew race means listening to a loudspeaker for eight minutes and then watching the last two hundred yards of a race; for the coach, it means following directly behind one's pupils, anxiously peering at a stopwatch and observing with horror that Number Three is a little late on his catch...
...crew reporter, on the other hand, finds himself in a spacious launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis...
...information that Harvard started fast, dropped to a 34 for the body of the race, and rose to a 36 or 37 at the finish. He dismissed briefly suggestions from others that they might be rowing at a more leisurely rate, urging the information that in a race a crew has to maintain a beat of at least 32 to stay in contention...