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...freshman crew, Coach Bill Leavitt made only one addition before going to Red Top. The new oarsman is Dean Wood, who will row at five. Although underdogs like the rest of the Crimson crews, the freshmen, encouraged by their performance against Princeton in the Compton Cup race, should give the Elis a close battle...
...team, then suggested that Hoegh take on Soapy Williams in a personal swimming match, a benefit affair to raise money for the Polio Foundation. Trim as he was in college, Governor Hoegh rose to the challenge, proposed a race of from 40 to 100 yards. Michigan's ex-Oarsman Williams was spoiling for a battle-with reservations: "The contest should be in the nature of a decathlon, to include swimming, rowing, wrestling with the legislature, executive-desk pounding...
Harriman was also noted at Yale for his expertness as an oarsman. When he was a boy back at Arden, his father had hired the great Syracuse University crew coach, Jim Ten Eyck, to spend a month on the Harrimans' private lake teaching Averell and Roland to row. Averell was so good that, when Yale decided to use amateur coaches, he was assigned to coach the freshman crew. He wangled leave from classes, went to England to learn the long Oxford stroke, came home and introduced it successfully at Yale. When he became varsity coach, he appointed...
They are Donald Kennedy '52, 4GSAS, who succeeds Graham Taylor as varsity and freshman ski coach; and Joseph Brown '53 1D, former three-year bow oarsman on the varsity 150 pound crew, who will instruct the Yardling light-weights...
Number four oarsman Geoffrey Locke won the Bruce Finley Vanderveer Trophy which goes annually to the man making the greatest contribution to the freshman boat. Junior Jack Lapsley was elected varsity captain for the 1956 season...