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Only changes in the Harvard lineup since Columbia were made Monday when Coach Reynolds moved Bill Coughlin from the J.V. beat to six spot in the varsity eight, replacing Jim Barrett. Frank May-bank switched with Dan Raykov, taking over his port four oar...
Captain Dick Lincoin will stroke the varsity shell, with Oliver Leland at seven and Bill Coughlin in six seat. Randy Seed holds down five oar and Frank Maybank rows at four. Bill Gray and Bill Lindemulder are in the three and two spots, respectively. Joe Brown and the shell at bow. George Notter will...
Reynolds' "engine room" between seven and four seats sports three who are making their rowing debuts. At port, behind Hadik, Bob Volpe came fresh to Harvard from Loomis. Tall, slim John Lizars holds down number five position, but never handled an oar before, and rangy Keith Garland rows out of the crucial four spot...
...fall at the first jump, managed to clear all 30 barriers, win the 1953 Grand National by 20 lengths. ¶In London, in rowing's most rugged (4½ mi.) race, the Cambridge crew, with a Cambridge, Mass, oarsman named Louis McCagg pulling a sturdy No. 6 oar, upset Oxford by eight lengths. ¶In Columbus, Yale's well-balanced swimming team, piling up points in all but two of the 14 events, defeated Ohio State's defending champions 96½-73½, for the N.C.A.A. team title...
...years ago, McCagg stroked the Crimson against Cambridge in a losing battle. This year, pulling a strong sixth oar for his former opponents, he was credited by many British writers with providing the difference between the competing crews...