Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each oarsman's first grueling battle will be for a seat in the varsity, Harvard coach Harry Parker, who has been able to watch his squad on the water since only three weeks ago when the Charles River finally thawed, said he will not complete his selections until early next week in California...
...Sunday, as the crew was doing just that, Parker was also cautious. Usually, if you ask him a question, he'll tilt his head up, roll back his eyes and answer with a calm, "Oh really?" or "Not really" or just plain "really" which every Harvard oarsman can mimick in tonal perfection. When he wants to think about something, Parker will look out the nearest window and there will be a long, uneasy silence...
Said another oarsman, "Yes, I think everyone on the crew does feel that...
...canal, although only disease-ridden carp could still live in it. Once, during a race, a fisherman cast his line clear over a boat and while he was still within shouting distance the air was full of invectives between the coxswain and the fisherman. In another race an oarsman was hit in the forehead by a stone cast by some malicious hooligan; it's a great West Side legend that he did not stop rowing...
...someone uninvolved in rowing, all this talk about racing more than six months away must seem ridiculously premature. But, to an oarsman, such aspirations get him through long winter hours in the tanks, endless ergometer pieces, and, in the early spring, powering down the Charles frozen to his oar with the coach's launch scouting ahead for still floating...