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...glance in practice which of his oarsmen are pulling their weight - and which aren't. Attached to the oarlocks, miniature dynamometers measure the pull on each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting 280 Ibs. of pressure. Three means 265 Ibs., two means 240 Ibs., and one means a bawling out. Burk calls the machine "the Wizard," credits it with much of his crew's success. Last year Penn's varsity eight failed to win a single race; going into...
...third boat, though it has recently switched oarsman Bob Freedman from the port to the starboard side, is developing into "quite a smooth boat with lots of spirit," according to Weber. Sophomores Chris Cutler is stroking with junior Chip Mills...
...still as trim as the sloop he sails on Maine's Penobscot Bay, he decided that he might not be able to serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week if he was feeling his years, Salty beamed: "I'll take you on any time...
Gunderson, a three-year letterman and member of the four-oar crew from Harvard that represented the United States in the 1964 Olympics, is only the second oarsman to earn the Bingham Award since its inception in 1954. The other was Perry Boyden...
...Laconia Oarsman...