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Navy got a false start when its stroke lost his oar in the first 15 strokes of the race and the boats had another start. The Navy stroke continued to have difficulties throughout the race, losing his oar late in the contest, but despite the Middie difficulties the Crimson J.V.s recorded an unimpressive six-second triumph...
Baker's juggling act has produced a varsity boat with three new faces from last week. Barbara Norris moves into stroke, Allison Hall comes up from the J.V. into the seven seat, Katie Moss is back at six, and Captain Alison Hill will hold down he five oar...
Jack Poley brought two years of experience to the seven seat, and junior Gil Welck, returning from a one-year retirement, took up his oar at the six seat. The rest of the boat rounded out with Tim Hackert at five, Peter Fuchs at four, Ed Timmins at three. R.T. Lyman and Greg-Miller returned to the two seat and bow positions respectively, and Paul Chessin handled the megaphone duties...
...Newell Boathouse, there are stickers on every oar upon which oarsmen's names have been embossed: Brooks, Bixby, Hovey and so on. But on one oar is a sticker which reads simply, "Row well...
...someone uninvolved in rowing, all this talk about racing more than six months away must seem ridiculously premature. But, to an oarsman, such aspirations get him through long winter hours in the tanks, endless ergometer pieces, and, in the early spring, powering down the Charles frozen to his oar with the coach's launch scouting ahead for still floating...