Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the men who checked into Newell Boat House since the beginning of the term are Stu Clark and Robert Stone both of whom were mainstays of the freshman crew in 1942. Another oarsman who has returned from the wars is Frank Cunningham, who rowed on the 150's in '42, but who is now holding down a slide in one of the heavy boats...
...started out with four men. In addition to Judkins and Turner, there were Fred Hafka of Leverett House and Jon Cavarnos, unattached. But when the four closely-bunched wherries had traveled half the distance, an un-identified half the distance, an un-identified single scull with a middle-aged oarsman at the sweeps joined the race and rowed easily in his trim craft beside the leading, but more clumsy wherry...
...wherry is 19 feet long an 24 inches wide, having the oarsman's seat low in the hull. The compromise, called "comp" by those in the know, is longer, 25 feet, and narrower, 16 inches for greater speed...
...most advanced and fastest boats are called singles. These are usually 26 feet long and a bare 11 inches, wide. In both the comp and the singles the oarsman's seat is built out from the hull of the craft...
This is especially so now, since Haines often dropped the remark that an oarsman's best year is his second. This fact is causing a lot of sweat to stain the bottoms of Harvard's shells, since most of the men working out with the coach now are novices. Thus in two years these men will reach their peaks, and the competition for the American shell entry in the Olympics will be underway...