Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When it has been too cold to go out on the Charles, the oarsmen meet at Newell, and led by Captain S. B. Kelley '25, run from two to four miles as part of the conditioning program which Coach Stevens has mapped out for the squad...
Aided by the unusually favorable weather conditions which have greeted his oarsmen this fall. Coach E. A. Stevens has continued to hold daily practice for two of the crews under his direct jurisdiction...
...candidates their first work-out on the good ship "Leviathan". With the 20 oars swinging in anything but perfect unison, the huge barge swept up and down the Charles with each new set of candidates. This total lack of symmetry is explained by the fact that none of the oarsmen ever rowed in a shell, and the resemblance they bore to the sweep-swinger slaves in the "Sea-Hawk" will probably disappear after a few weeks more under Coach Haines. The "Leviathan" has proved a successful invention, however, and is sure to become a permanent institution in Harvard rowing circles...
Coach Stevens will arrive in Cambridge Thursday, and take charge personally of the first crew. Coach Haines, who had charge of the Freshman 150 pound eights last year will be head coach of the 1928 oarsmen during the coming season. He will have as his assistants A. L. Hobson Jr. '24, and J. R. Hoover '24, both of whom rowed against Yale last year...
...Springfield, Mass., amateur oarsmen stripped off their clothes, put their shells in the Connecticut River, stepped their sweeps, held the 52nd national amateur rowing regatta. When they unstepped their sweeps, lifted out their shells, put on their clothes, the Bachelors' Barge Club of Philadelphia had won the Barnes trophy for the club championship...