Word: curwen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson entries, Captain-elect Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen were the only tankmen to place. Drucker garnered a third behind Danny Dannenbaum of Yale and Tom Shand of Princeton in the 150 yard backstroke with the sparkling time of 1:37.7, only eight-tenths of a second slower than the winning pace...
Coach Hal Ulen of the Harvard Varsity swimming team yesterday named the following men as his entries: John Eusden in the 50 and 100-yard free style swim, Captain-elect Bill Drucker in the 150-yard backstroke, Bus Curwen in the 200-yard breastroke, Dave Barnes, George Christman and Captain Tom Shrewsbury in the 440-yard free style, and a medley relay team composed of Drucker, Curwen, and Eusden. Shrewsbury will also compete in the 220-yard free style race...
...Curwen Has No Peer...
Bolles has all he could ask for in Curwen as a stroke. Bus stood head and shoulders above last year's fine array of pace-setters, and now he is expected to have the field all to himself. Just at present he is churning up the chlorinated waters of the swimming pool, but after this weekend he will enter the rowing scene, probably with a good deal of pain, since a winter's work swimming leaves hands in no condition for hard pulling on a sweep...
...Below Curwen there is practically nothing. In his absence Dave Noyes is stroking the Varsity, with experience limited to two falls of rowing, one of which was on the starboard side. An operation laid him up all last spring, and even this fall he was not a stroke. Bryce Seligman and George Nichols are the other two ranking men, and both were stroking House crews last spring. All this is a far cry from working on the Jayvees, which one of the three will probably be called upon...