Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound crews are subject to change at any time, the presence of three of last year's regulars in the shell stroked by Merrill stamps this boat as the first crew at present. It is the only boat which rows regularly with the same seating order, the other oarsmen in the squad being assigned to places when they report at Newell boathouse every afternoon...
...over a week the Yale oarsmen were deprived of the services of their famous mentor, owing to the death of Mrs. Leader. During his absence, Coaches Murphy and Moore took charge of the workouts, and it was under their observation that the first 1925 Eli crew rowed in a shell in the New Haven harbor...
Richard Pocock, the boat builder whom Coach Leader brought with him from Washington, and brother of the Seattle boat constructor from whom the Crimson shells were purchased, built a barge similar to the Leviathan, seating 16 oarsmen. The Eli barge has been christened the Cleopatra and while designed primarily for inexperienced candidates, it has been used frequently by the first squad with very satisfactory results...
...Gates '27 at seat six in the first shell. Darlington rowed on his Freshman eight two years ago, and last year pulled an oar in the second University crew. He is the tallest man on the squad, measuring six feet four inches, and is one of the most finished oarsmen in Coach Stevens' group...
...eights under his direct supervision. In the event that he decides to retain only two eights as his first squad this year, crew Z will revert to Coach Brown at a later date, after a more permanent realignment of the candidates in the present first squad. Last year three oarsmen earned their letters by rowing in the first boat against Yale. They were taken up to the first squad by Coach Stevens following the class crew season, in which a victorious Crimson shell opened up five lengths of water in the race with the representative Eli class eight...