Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days a week 24 oarsmen trudge to Newell Boathouse. These are the men from whom the varsity heavyweight eight will be chosen and on whom the Crimson is depending to regain the rowing championship it lost last year...
...three weeks the crews have been on the water every day but Sunday, and the oarsmen can look for the training to become even more intensive as coach Harvey Love searches for a line-up and as April 22 and the opening race near. The crews, which began practice in the fall and continued indoors during the winter, will remain in Cambridge over spring vacation, rowing twice...
With only four returning lettermen, competition among the oarsmen is unusually strong this year. Love notes he is depending on the returnees, led by captain Perry Boyden, to provide a strong nucleus for the shell. The other lettermen are seniors Luke Breckinridge and Ken Gregg and junior John Higginson. So far, Love said yesterday, he has not attempted to put together a varsity shell, but will begin testing combinations soon. If he is lucky he hopes to have a definite line-up by the end of vacation...
Next came the Tideway Scullers, an English group whose members compete in single soulls for positions is the club eight. The race took place on a Saturday morning, with the finals scheduled for that afternoon. Still toting colds, the Crimson oarsmen eliminated the Scullers by one-third of a length and sat back to await the winner of the other semi-final heat...
...Thames was full of practicing oarsmen last week, all correctly garbed in soggy sweat suits and all wearing the sober face of dedication to a gentleman's sport. Then an Australian named Stuart Mackenzie clapped a flippantly incorrect bowler on his head, put on a sardonic grin, and sallied out for a trial scull. Watching Mackenzie's parody of his prospective rivals, one old Cambridge rowing blue sniffed: "Just not the sort of thing done around here...