Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon on the Schuylkill River, the undefeated first-string Crimson oarsmen stroked by Captain John Watts '28, will face the Navy and Pennsylvania eight in a race, the results of which will have an important bearing on the Olympic status of all Eastern college crews...
...Harvard oarsmen will have an opportunity tomorrow both in the morning and the afternoon to become accustomed to the conditions prevailing on the river and work out any muscular kinks acquired during the journey...
Coach C. S. Heard '25 will also take his 150-pound oarsmen to Derby, Connecticut, this Saturday to face the Yale and Princeton light weights over the Henley distance...
...oarsmen, after showing great power on Saturday in their two and a half length defeat of a Cornell Freshman boat reputed to have held the first Ithacan crew even in early season competition, will not have another opportunity this spring to test their strength against invaders on the Charles. Coach H. H. Haines' charges make their next official start when they line up next to Yale on the Thames on June...
...Manhattan. The strain, stress and storm of modern life is increasing the number of heart disease invalids. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, do not seem to have a bad effect on the heart, as is commonly supposed. Nor do athletics necessarily cause enlargement of the heart. European studies show that oarsmen, skiers and cyclists are the only athletes with hearts affected by their exertions. Overeating and obesity are bad only to diseased hearts.-Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston. A serum from patients with rheumatic fever (important and insidious cause of heart disease) has shown encouraging effects in 270 cases...