Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under way on her trial run. Instead of her regular crew, she had aboard hundreds of dockyard men and technicians. Some 180 miles south of Nagoya, the U.S. submarine Archerfish sighted her, dark and enormous among a shoal of destroyers...
Although the crew season, is a fait accompli--with the Varsity well established as the best in the country in the 2,000 meter sprints and its component parts, seattered to indulge in less strenuous, summer aquatic activities, Harvard rowing is not yet a dead issue...
...meter distance is blandly called the "Olympic distance" and therein lies the motive for extraneous, post-season speculation. The fasts are obvious; there is a 2,000 meter crew race in the Olympics; a competitive nation by nature, the United States would like to win it; the United States will send its best sprint-crew...
Stroke-our Frank Cunningham, who pulled the crew to its major sprint victories at Princeton and Seattle and earned an all-star rating by a Seattle sportswriter, will have graduated both from the College and his little seat facing the coxswain. Gone too will be Captain Bob Stone, who was at four, and Stu Clark, at two. Significantly, from the balanced-boat angle, all three are starboard oarsmen...
Bolles, however, is a wizard at developing a balanced, heroic, and--what is more--a winning crew from green hands. This year's eight, for example, had only two members with Varsity experience. If he intends to draw from this year's Jayvees, he will have the advantage of drawing from, tested oarsmen, for his number two boat captured the Eastern Intercollegiate sprint title for Junior Varsities while the Varsity was winning theirs. An unfortunate coincidence, however, is that Jayvee stroke, Oliver Filley, is already an alumnus...