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...years ago Glendon Sr., was not Columbia's coach. He was assistant coach and it was his son "Rich" who was head coach...
...charges to let Watts stroke the first crew tomorrow, as he has been doing all this week. Captain Clark will be at No. 4, with Harrison taking his old berth. Penn and Navy, like Harvard, have been the underdogs in their races so far this season. Coach Glendon's midshipmen are going to the starting line with small comfort in having defeated Syracuse a week ago, for they have previously lost to Tech and Columbia. The Quaker staters have also matched up against the season's best crews, finishing last in regattas with Columbia and Yale, and Columbia and Princeton...
...Glendon Sr. did not lose his race, neither did he win it. At the end of the race Columbia's crew sat up very straight and flattened their oars as crews do when they finish first. Three lengths behind them the Navy men were still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but they did not bother to sit up straight. Still later, U. S. Subchaser No. 440, which had carried the Navy shells and oars from Annapolis to the Harlem River, took them back to Annapolis. Glendon Jr. did not answer his father's telegram...
...years ago Glendon Sr. was Columbia's coach and his son was assisting him. Then Glendon Sr. went to the Navy and Columbia kept the son. In last week's Columbia crew every man but one had once been coached by Glendon Sr. But no Glendon crews ever raced each other in a dual meet until last week...
...Cape Cod, where he still grows cranberries, and to which he returns every summer with his son, that Glendon Sr. first loved the water. At 19, he was made official coach of the Boston A. A. He has never stopped coaching since. Between him and his son exists a quiet undemonstrative affection. Glendon Jr. calls his father "Dick." His father answers with "Rich...