Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Coach Stevens come two more Westerners, Fred Newell and Sam Shaw, who will act as assistant coaches. Stevens will personally supervise the work of the University oarsman, while Shaw will have charge of the Freshmen and Newell of the class crews...
...three of the new coaches come from Portland, Oregon. Stevens has been a champion single sculler and sweep oarsman. He was once a member of the Cornell crew and later assisted as a crew coach. Recently he has been connected with the Portland Rowing Club rowing with Newell on a champion 1923 crew. Shaw comes from the University of Washington where he captained last year's victorious eight...
...ardent oarsman in his youth; in 1887 he rowed bow in the Cambridge eight and in later years won the Grand and Steward's cups at Henley-on-Thames...
...association singles, he beat W. E. G. Gilmore, of Baltimore, who two weeks ago won the Canadian quarter-mile title at St. Catherine's, Ont. He then splashed over a choppy mile-and-a-quarter course to the national singles championship. In his wake struggled Hilton Belyea, fisherman-oarsman of St. John, N. H., 1922 Canadian champion, and Paul V. Costello, of Philadelphia, 1922 national champion...
...consider this: it generally takes about three years to make a really good oarsman; to grind "form" into, his system so thoroughly that he will hold it under pressure of extreme exhaustion. How hard then to expect eight men to re-learn rowing in a year so thoroughly that they will not "crack", or have off days when they revert to their old rowing habits. The Freshmen have nothing to which to revert. As to the idea that it is "guts, not form" which we want, let me suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing...