Word: oarsmen
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Heavyweight coach Harry Parker described yesterday's conditions on the river as "essentially free of ice" for the first time. His oarsmen have been making sporadic forays onto the ice-choked Charles since last Wednesday, but now on-the-water training can begin in earnest...
...Crimson had won in a watery walk. Stroking easily, the boat captured the admiration of the British press. London Field Magazine noted "the lightening quickness of their hands, a method which would appear to be a lost art among modern English oarsmen...
...record number of entries--one-hundred-twenty shells and four-hundred-fifty oarsmen will enter the annual Head of the Charles River Regatta, the largest ever held in the United States and Canada, at noon Sunday...
Harvard's oarsmen have won the Eastern Sprint Championships, the Stein Cup (from Brown and Rutgers), the Adams Cup (from Pennsylvania and Navy) and the Compton Cup (from Princeton and M.I.T.). In New London, Conn., last month, they swept to their fifth straight victory over Yale, by the huge margin of seven boat lengths. And on New York's Hunter Island Lagoon two weeks ago, they outstroked Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club, the 1964 Olympic champions, to 1) earn the right to represent the U.S. at next month's Pan American Games at Winnipeg, Canada...
What's more, they did it all in an old shell. Sitting in the Crimson boathouse is a new 50 ft. English racing shell that Coach Harry Parker, 31, bought last winter to replace Harvard's heavier 56-ft. Swiss shell. His varsity oarsmen have never been able to use the new boat-simply because, at an average 6 ft. 3 in. and 196 Ibs. per man, they are too big to get into...