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Leavitt has some good, experienced men to draw from, at least on the top level. Only one oarsman, number five man Dick Darrell, has not had any rowing experiences prior to last fall, while the others were all on top prep school crews last season...
Stroke Len Wheeler, for example, rowed stroke on a fair Exeter boat last spring. A slim, steady oarsman, he's almost the smallest man in the shell at 176 pounds. Behind Wheeler, on the starboard side, is Mike Metcalf, while Ned Brookfield holds down the number six slot. At five and four Leavitt has placed Darrell and Howle Cushing...
Crewmen are usually noted for sportsmanship, and Columbia rowers are testing this reputation. Two Lions have opened a bank account under the name of "Oorsmen United" to help Dartmouth replace the shells destroyed when the Indian boathouse roof collapsed on March 15. Every oarsman is asked to contribute a dollar to the fund...
...Harvard interloper will intrude on the unspeakably traditional Oxford-Cambridge crew race on March 29 in the person of Kenneth Kenniston '51, former varsity oarsman, who will be at No. 6 for Oxford. Kenniston, in England on a Rhodes Scholarship, rowed for the Crimson when it won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley in England two years...
...three Harvard crews won six races in one day against 30 crews at Syracuse, an unequalled record. But Bolles said he had never had a crew that had rowed as hard as the '48 boat--five races in eight days. Frank Strong--a great oarsman--lost 20 pounds, but the Crimson still lost the Olympic tryouts because it was so tired...