Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exciting way to start the season," said junior Greg Williams, a varsity oarsman...
Also at Briggs, the Classics' Harvard Basketball club is one of the most talented and spirited groups you'll see in Harvard athletics. Those basketball talents include a refugee from the varsity and a couple of stars of the 1981-82 Ivy j.v. championship squad along with an ex-oarsman, an ex-varsity baseball pitcher and a varsity volleyball player, to name a few. That's physical--and as exciting as a local schoolyard contest...
Wood won his medal at Dursburg in a boat fitted with a sliding rigger, which means that the rower sits in a fixed seat and the our assembly moves back and forth. From the standpoint of physics, it means a faster boat, because instead of a 190-pound oarsman moving back and forth, a 30-pound set of oars is moving back and forth...
...Rogers, winning is the ultimate justification for the hours put in at training. The usually reserved oarsman is known to finish the last 10 meters of important races yelling at the top of his lungs in his enthusiasm to finish first...
...oarsman does not a championship boat make. But regardless of how the 1983 Harvard varsity boat fares against Yale and then at Nationals, one thing is assured. The smallish guy in the bow will have pulled his weight, and much much more...