Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John A. Hodges '62, of Mower Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa., was recently elected captain of the Freshman heavyweight crew. Hodges rowed for five years at Kent School in England, and his last year he performed at third oar on the first crew. He was on the team which faced Harvard in the Henley Regatta at Henley-on-the-Thames last spring...
Hanson Robbins skippered the A-division boat with a crew of John Stotler on Saturday and Xavier Roca yesterday. The B-division Tech dinghy was skippered by George Peter, with Peter van Teel and Edward Lund as crewmen on Saturday and Sunday respectively...
Under rather poor conditions, the Crimson Varsity lightweight crew retained possession of the Haines Cup as it defeated Cornell on the Charles River Saturday afternoon...
...varsity, the race was a two and a half length romp as it led from the very beginning and steadily widened its advantage. After 30 strokes it already was a length in front of Cornell and M.I.T. Rowing a solid 31 strokes per minute, Tony Goodman's crew had open water on Cornell at the Mass. Ave. bridge when the Big Red started to make its move three-quarters of a mile from the finish. All it was able to do, however, was leave Tech further behind as the Crimson eight stayed ahead while keeping to its low stroke...
...Crimson took a lead on the start and very early built it up to half a length--about 30 feet--although the Big Red crew did not drop its stroke after the racing start for about a quarter of a mile. But with both boats rowing between 31 and 32 through the middle of the race, Cornell pulled even with the Crimson shell, stroked by Capt. Mark Hoffman...