Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article, the first of a serres on crew, was written especially for the Crimson by C. H. Pforzheimer '28, assistant coach and former University coxswain...
Fall rowing this year occupied a shorter time than usual. Starting the first week in October, some ten or 11 crews practiced on the Charles five days a week until the final three mile race on October 31. The same policy of mingling University squad men and class crew, inaugurated by Coach E. J. Brown '96 in the fall of 1926, prevailed; the only differentiation made being that of weight. The heavy men, boated into five eights worked out under Coach Brown himself; while the 150-pound squad was in charge of F. R. Sullivan...
...berth on the University eleven; and Guy Murchie '29 who is running cross country. Besides these men, there are the oarsmen from last year's Freshman boat, only one of whom is at present ineligible because of scholastic difficulties. Five of the men from last year's championship class crew also were out regularly. The rest of the squad was composed of other class and dormitory crew men. For the first time in several years, there were almost enough upper-class coxswains for the number of crews on the river...
Whether its adoption will draw to the field numbers of men who do not play even class football because of a lack of brawn is problematical. Many light men turn to track, crew, and other sports where they are at no disadvantage or special provision is made for them. Football has long been regarded as an oligarchy of the big boys; it may be doubtful whether enough candidates will report to fill out enough teams for a comprehensive schedule, but in their particular effort to attract more men to the game the proponents of the new plan...
Probably the most amateur in spirit of all the major sports, crew has always attracted a large number of men who row merely because they find it the most expedient and pleasant manner of keeping fit. If one needed proof of this statement it is amply to be found in the fact that in spite of there being nothing approaching an objective race during the fall season nearly three hundred men have pulled an oar in some crew during the weeks just now coming to a close. The informality of the University squad and the flexible number of possible class...