Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone in Captain Wally Obermeyer's boat is an experienced oarsman, among its members are products of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton rowing programs...
Making an effort to seek out novice talent has been very profitable for Harvard. "Last year was the first since I've been here in which we didn't have a former novice oarsman on the varsity," Parker says. "As a rule, there are always several members of the first freshmen, varsity and JV crews who have never rowed before college...
...ship docks at Shanghai. He is a big man, good with his hands, though a little slow with his schoolbooks. One of Treadup's best assets is the ability to immerse himself in % drudgery, a fate he prepared for as a farm boy in upstate New York and an oarsman for Syracuse, where he heard the call to Jesus. Superficially, Treadup is a model of muscular Christianity. But he is also built to carry a good deal of symbolic weight. "What is moving in his story," writes Hersey, "what may in the end be thought to redeem the obvious failure...
...potential in the lineup includes senior Andy Sudden, a 1984 Olympic silver medalist, and sophomore Curt Pieckenhagen, who was the last oarsman cut from the Canadian Olympic champion eight...
...form Varsity Heavyweight Oarsman, I have followed with interest Mr. Wurf's follies in his reporting efforts on the men's hockey team. Since it is hard enough for a team to win in an away contest, it is unfortunate that Mr. Wurf fanned the competitive fires of Harvard's opponents with his article on Duluth. I can understand. Hockey Coach Cleary's reported ire at Mr. Wurf, this outsider, in his efforts to report the news, instead created it, and in doing so he provided an unfortunate distraction from the team's primary goal of beating...