Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled an A in Elizabethan literature, but he wasn't much of a student. One thing he did enjoy was rowing. His crew was good enough to row at Poughkeepsie; but his career as an oarsman ended abruptly when he hurt his spine...
...future, any 150-pound oarsman who wins a minor H for three consecutive years will receive a major letter the third season...
...third of the four heats, a promising oarsman named Chenery jumped to an early lead and looked like a sure thing--good form, plenty of wind, oarblades flashing--until a gay Charles River excursion boat loomed directly in his path. As he scrambled out of the way, Bruce Preston and Dick Schaal chunked swiftly by to cross the finish line in a dead heat...
Dowd will doff his clerk-of-course appellation to challenge Day on the strength of his runner-up position last summer in a close meeting with Day as a lightweight oarsman...
Haines added that the oarsman would be lucky to graduate from a wherry in less than 20 to 25 rows...