Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilde is the third former Crimson oarsman who has returned to coach the lightweights. Last fall Rouner stepped in for Ted Reynolds who graduated from the Business School after one year of coaching. The season before that, Reynolds replaced the venerable Bert Haines, who taught the 150 pounders the finer art of catch and release for over 30 years...
...fine fielding by Captain Donaghy, and crucial hits by Prior and Durkee. Captain Clark's crew had a mediocre season under the tutelage of Coach J. C. Brown, as it twice placed third in triangle regattas. After experimenting all year, Brown finally settled on James Lawrence, an Olympic four oarsman, as his stroke for the New London race...
...Father Kelly, also an expert oarsman, won the Olympic singles in Antwerp in 1920; son John, a champion like his father, took first prize twice (in 1947 and 1949) in the famed Diamond Sculls at Henley, England...
Larry Cabot will stroke the eight, with Dick Timpson, ex-Eton oarsman from England, at seven, Norm Marsh at six, Dick Schwartz at five, Larry Perera at four, Ted Davison at three, Don White at two and Les Schoene at bow. Cox is John Powell...
When Fresnay, the script, and the photography are at their best, some splendid scenes result. A galley episode, in which the priest rushes down to relieve a fainting oarsman, provides the film's most exciting moment. The photography by Renoir, done almost over-zealously in the French style of realism, finds most of the 17th century poor either consumptive or deformed. This grimness underscores the need for a saint, but an occasional glimpse of healthier and happier peasants might have brightened the realism of a vividly performed script...