Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat favored by the statistics to win the inter-squad regatta is the one stroked by Captain John Watts '28, the pace-maker for Crew C. The four stern oarsmen of this shell, Watts, Guy Murchie '29, Oliver Ames '28, and B. J. Harrison '29 are more powerful and experienced than any of the other combinations...
...University nine and the crew will meet the Pennsylvania baseball team and oarsmen. The University band will also be present...
...second crew in action, and with a small number of prospects from the class crews, the situation on the river is encouraging to Coach Brown. Further races this week and next will clarify this situation. The crews will be picked on April 14, after the spring vacation. All the oarsmen will be given a full week off during the holidays, breaking a precedent of several years...
...Haines, head coach of the Freshman crews, supervised the work of the 1931 oarsmen, together with F. R. Sullivan '27, former coxswain of the University crew. There was a stiff breeze, and an occasional cake of ice floated down upon the Leviathan, but the oarsmen encountered no major difficulties. The Freshmen have been working on the tank in Newell Boat House since February 6, when the call for candidates was sounded...
...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has, by means of intelligence tests (and what a world of blasted hopes and teary smiles is in those two words!) discovered that college athletes rate thus according to intelligence: Tennis players, 87 percent; fencers, 81 percent; wrestlers, oarsmen and water polo players, 80 percent; non-athletes and golfers, 79 percent, athletes (average), 78 percent; football, 73 percent; and track, 70 percent...