Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three year term in charge of the University eight, will return to the class crews he has coached for twenty years; F. J. Sullivan '28, coaching the 150-pounders; C. J. Hubbard '24, who divided his time between coaching Harvard's rush line in the fall and the Freshman lightweight crews in the spring; and E. A. Wachter, who will take over the dormitory rowers after he concludes the season as basketball coach...
...Annual sophomore-freshman tussle supposed to replace inter-class fights. Divided into lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight classes, three bouts are held. Object: to wrest a heavy stick, grasped at each end, from one's opponent. This year sophomores won two of the three matches...
Starting with nine crews, Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 reduced his squad to six 150-pound crews, four of which raced in the Basin on November 8, R. R. White '32 of last year's Freshman lightweight crew winning handily. There is plenty of material on this squad, seven of last year's American Henley champions bolstered by the members of the 1932 crew that defeated Yale and Tech with ease...
...handicapped by the loss of Captain Joseph Lifrak '29, the return of J. F. Solano '30, former Freshman star, after a year's absence should be an important factor in the progress of the team. Another loss which will be severely felt is that of Crispin Cooke '32, lightweight star of last year's Freshman team. He will be prevented from wrestling this season because of an injury...
...much is sympathy with the ideal behind this suggestion as we are--that of giving the greatest athletic outlet to the greatest number of men, we feel that the move is attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power...