Word: oarsmen
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...crew began three and a half years ago when, after playing J.V. hockey, he made his first trek to Newell Boathouse. It was not an auspicious beginning. He started training six months later than his teammates, who had begun in the fall, and Roger was one of the smallest oarsmen out for the heavyweight crew. Still, he could rely on five years experience of rowing in high school and on his willingness to work harder than just about anyone else...
...coach, Harry Parker can only sit and watch and wait, helpless on the sidelines. For the individual oarsmen, they can only grip their oar a little tighter, push their pain tolerance a little higher, and cock their ear a little closer to the cox screaming signals in front of them. And hope, hope that somehow all their training and hard work will help them jell together as a unit, enough to outdistance the other crews...
...Oarsmen don't even see the end of the race--they're facing the other way, detached from the action they create themselves. In the last 50 meters of an even race it boils down to faith. Faith in the cox, faith in oneself to endure, and, yes, faith in the coaching...
...Harry Parker the rewards of coaching come in races like Sunday's. The eight Crimson oarsmen in that boat started as novices in lower boats and worked their way up. On Sunday last they achieved peak form, and they'll have a chance to do it again for the Sexton Cup in three weeks against Yale, which finished a distant fourth in the Sprints...
Harvard crew is back--with a new generation of oarsmen rowing against new and tougher rivals. And Harry Parker, skipper of the Crimson dynasty, is still at the helm...