Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying up and down the Charles these spring days are four distinct varieties of oarsmen: Varsity, Junior Varsity, Freshmen, and 150's. Those in the last group, however, into a special classification. Their standard racing shell is two inches narrower and a shade lighter than the others, and their usual racing distance is shorter by seven sixteenths of a mile. Weight restrictions limit their boat average to an even one fifty and their individual poundage to a hundred and fifty five...
...light oarsmen deserve better treatment for several reasons. They have occupied an official place in Harvard's athletic roster since the early twenties. In Bert Haines they have one of the finest and most colorful of crew coaches. Last season they rowed alternately 150 and Junior Varsity and went through the season undefeated in both classes...
...Oarsmen will be under the direction of business school student Dick Davis, who rowed for the Cornell crew...
...Charles, one he learned from Callow, who in turn coached under the crew-great Hiram Conibear. Reluctantly, Bolles has tried to summarize the system for the layman. "Our stroke is a short body swing," he says; but he adds that the shortness is only relative to length used by oarsmen such as those at Syracuse...
Adding to the difficulty of judging a crew and its oarsmen is the fact that course times are of little value. Although the Charles' current is relatively stable, the wind varies from day to day. Natural phenomena, such as the tides at New London, can change conditions enough to make as much as a 15-minute difference...