Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Haines briefly outlined the season's work. The oarsmen will work on the machine until the river opens up. He expects to put the shells on the river during the last three weeks in March, when the men will be roughly graded. Around the first of April the 1930 squad, consisting of three heavy crews and three 150-pound eights, will be chosen...
Among the candidates were four members of last year's first University crew, three from the second crew, and seven from the combination crews, as well as the huskey oarsmen who made up the undefeated 1929 Freshman boat...
...into parts with squad "A" comprising four or five crews. On these crews will be the men who have already had experience. As far as possible these crews will row in the same order until April, but strokes and coxswains will be shifted frequently from crew to crew, and oarsmen on the other squad will be shifted to one of the first squad boats as they show improvement...
...scope of sport to include as many men as possible, and to provide them not only with facilities but with competent coaching. In crew, the number for whom we have thus provided is considerable. Last fall thirty-two crews were on the river. This meant that at least 256 oarsmen were regularly coached. The number of coxswains are not included, since one coxswain served for more than one boat. To instruct these men there was a staff of eleven coaches; one head coach for the varsity, with general supervision of rowing as a whole; one coach for the class crews...
...dearth of coxswains has resulted from the advent of 120 new oarsmen on the river, and all undergraduates weighing less than 125 pounds, upper classmen preferably but Freshmen as well, are urged to report this afternoon at their respective boathouses. Previous experience is desirable, but entirely unnecessary. If possible the candidates should report in warm athletic clothes, for everyone will be afforded an opportunity...