Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bing Crosby's languid baritone drifted through the University of Omaha field house-"drifting and dreaming, while shadows fall." The brawny, crew-cut young men in T shirts and gym shorts couldn't wait for the shadows. A boulder-built (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) wingback named Jerry Hunter sidled up to a hulking (6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs.) Negro tackle named Al Brown and asked: "May I have this dance?" Another time, another place, and Hunter might have earned a poke in the teeth. But this was Physical Education 251, and Tackle Brown minded...
John Deknatel, with Guy Kaldis as crew, finished in sixth place, and Tom Townsend's boat, crewed by Eric Frank, came in seventh for the Crimson in their respective classes...
Last Saturday the first boat of the varsity proved its worth by nosing out a strong Syracuse crew. Tomorrow this same Crimson eight has a chance to establish itself as one of the top in the East. To do this it must defeat a highly-rated Princeton crew on the Charles River tomorrow evening...
Love's comment on tomorrow's race was, "No matter how you look at it, Princeton is the crew to beat." This year's statistics, which is all the varsity has to go on, would certainly seem to bear him out. The Tigers have had two races; in the first, they lost by a scant foot to a strong Navy eight. Last week they beat Penn, another of the better crews in the East...
...varsity crew goes up the Charles Saturday at 6 p.m. Princeton, BU, MIT, and Dartmouth along for the ride, hopefully. The Harvard-Wellesley bike race gets rolling from outside Soldier's Field, Saturday afternoon...