Word: oarsman
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...politics, but I'm not. He has nothing to do with this. I don't want my picture taken because by next week I may be cut from the crew squad and then what would my friends say after seeing me advertised everywhere as a great oarsman...
...jumped away from the stake boat. Harvard shot ahead in the spray of the racing start. As Stroke Cassedy slid his beat down to 31, Yale drew even and then ahead, three quarters of a length at the half mile, two lengths at the mile. Here, where an inexperienced oarsman might have tried too hard to whittle down the lead, Cassedy was satisfied to let Yale set the pace. From time to time, fencing with Bill Garnsey in the stern of the other shell, he sent his beat up, dropped it again when Yale answered the challenge. Finally, after...
...widely held belief that rowing on a crew damages the health of the oarsman and that college crew men die regularly at the age of 45 or there-abouts will be considerably jolted by the news that the class of 1883 will put a crew on the river during its fiftieth reunion next week. Word was received yesterday from C. P. Perin '83, captain of that year's crew, that eight members of the class have agreed to row when the members of the class gather in Cambridge...
...Saturday Evening Post article writes: "Competitive rowing is one of the most severe sports; few trainers will undertake to accept men for training on a crew until they have been carefully examined by physicians as to the state of their hearts. The longer a man has been an oarsman, the greater was the enlargement found in his vital tissue. Strangely enough, football players and boxers show relatively little enlargement in the heart, and cyclists practically none...
...single sculls final, long-nosed Henry Robert Pearce of Australia, rowing with the quick savage stroke that won for him in 1928, built up a two-and-a-half-length lead. Five hundred metres from the finish, Bill Miller, 26-year-old oarsman of Philadelphia, pulling with a quicker swing, began to cut down the open water between the bow of his shell and the stern of Pearce's. Miller's bow was coming up even with the waist of Pearce's shell when Pearce's bow reached the finish. Last major event...