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...situation has developed to the point where the Crimson coach has experimented with combinations not including the other three returning lettermen--Luke Beckinridge, last year's seven oar; Ken Gregg, a fixture in the five seat for two years; and junior John Higginson, who rowed at number two last year. Also, Love has been hampered by the loss of coxswain Bob Goodwin, sidelined with an infected throat. Additionally, there is not much help from last year's freshman boat: Only three sophomores from the first freshman shell have turned...
...Using radical, shovel-shaped oar blades, the Oxford crew trounced Cambridge on the Thames by 1¼ lengths in their 106th race, despite the rooting of former Cambridge Coxswain Antony Armstrong-Jones and his fiancée, Princess Margaret...
...drifted in his lifeguard's rowboat, a playful swimmer reached up and began rocking the boat. Quesada's response was strikingly similar to his techniques even today: he raised an oar and whacked the swimmer on the hands. The victim was an Air Service pilot. The two made friends quickly, and soon thereafter the pilot took Quesada up for an airplane ride. That did it: the day after his first ride, Pete Quesada joined the Air Service, went off to training as a flying cadet. He became a first-class pilot...
John A. Hodges '62, of Mower Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa., was recently elected captain of the Freshman heavyweight crew. Hodges rowed for five years at Kent School in England, and his last year he performed at third oar on the first crew. He was on the team which faced Harvard in the Henley Regatta at Henley-on-the-Thames last spring...
...McClenan and Tory Everett along with sophomore Ken Gregg. These men provide a strong base for blending the rest of the crew. The oarsmen in the bow four are still undergoing change as Love seeks to find a crew which has both the necessary grace and power behind the oar...