Word: oarlock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment when a still unidentified 'Punie loosened the bow oarlock of his rivals' boat, to the bitter assault on CRIMSON cox Michael Churchill after the contest, the 'Punies spared nothing in their efforts to interrupt the inevitable progress of the race...
...fast start against Penn, M.I.T., and Cornell in the Quadrangular Regatta, rough water had postponed the race for three hours. The Cantab and Penn Crew soon left the others far behind. Matching stroke for stroke they swept down the Charles, but Harvard took advantage of a snapped oarlock in the Quaker shell to win a thrilling victory...
Love's Jayvees had no such luck, however. With the Crimson leading by over a length only forty strokes from the end of the race, the oarlock on number two's rigger broke, and the oar came out. Two-man Swede Sundqvist missed one stroke, then threw the loose oar out of the boat, and followed it by diving out himself, the crew finishing with only seven rowers. Princeton sprinted when the Tiger coxswain saw the accident, closed the gap, and passed the Crimson, winning by half a length...
...have clomped, crabbed and fanned quite a few oars against thole pins, but I have yet to recall one as squeaking. Against an oarlock, maybe yes, but a drop of [cod] liver squeezings . . . will eliminate any such annoyance...