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Since then Rogers has worked his way up, rowing J.V. his sophomore year and then claiming the bow seat on the varsity last year. Currently Rogers is one of the two best starboards on the Harvard crew roster. When it came to seat-racing last fall, the oarsman was exempted from the head-to head challenges because, as coxswain Simon recalls. "There was no doubt" about his abilities...
Both inside and outside the boathouse, Harvard's captain acts in the interests of his performance, but then no one else on the team has had to overcome Rogers's disadvantages. The lightest oarsman in the boat and the shortest by several inches, the Eliot House resident makes up in technique and hard work what he lacks in size. Rogers is generally acknowledged to have the smoothest blades man ship of the team, an oarsman devoted to his craft...
...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...
First among the horrors of indoor rowing are the ergometers, known to the aficionado as ergs. These, in two different configurations, measure an oarsman's strength by timing his effort against resistance. Teams use these mechanical nightmares throughout the year to gauge improvement and compare individual performances. They are an ongoing fact of crew, an unavoidable inconvenience...