Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college crew are about as poor-mouthed as the coaches in any other sport. Say something nice about their boys and their eyes open wide in disbelief; the corners of their mouths curl down, and they launch into a wail about injuries and other miseries. Harvard's Harry Parker, 29, has only been varsity coach for three years. So he has a lot to learn. When experts say this year's Harvard eight is one of the best college crews in the history of the sport, Parker not only agrees but goes up a stroke. "I suspect that...
Call It Talent. Parker's crew is essentially the same one that was unbeaten last year until its loss to Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club in the Olympic trials. Now the Crimson is stronger, more mature, more confident. They average 6 ft. 3 in. and 180 lb.-including Coxswain John Unkovic, who stands 5 ft. 6 in. and weighs 120 lb. after dinner. Four of them-Captain and No. 6 Oar Paul Gunderson, Stroke Geoff Picard, No. 3 Oar Tom Pollock, No. 2 Oar Bob Schwarz-have been in the same boat since their freshman year at Harvard...
...practice, they row 6 to 10 miles a day, smoothly and powerfully shifting the stroke from 20 to 32 beats per minute; each man fitting himself to his boatmates. They may look like metronomes, but Coach Parker calls it "talent." "They are always thinking and feeling what's going on," he says, "rather than being out there just slugging away...
...Crimson boat will remain as it has been all year. Harvard's only change will come in the combina- tion race, which is made up of members of the second freshman and third varsity boats, and is raced only on this occasion. The Harvard boating will be: bow, Tony Parker; two, Ed Poliakoff; three, Bill Wolbach; four, Andy Larkin; five, Jake Fiechter; six, Geoff Lister; seven, Tom Scarvie; stroke, Clint Allen; and cox, Quentin Sullivan...
William Riley Parker, who dedicated the renovated Boylston in 1960, demanded "Now that you have nice facilities, what are you going to do with them?" The German Department's answer was to match the facilities with teaching skill. They had already brought Stein with his modern audio-lingual and anti-grammarian philosophy from Columbia in 1958. In his newly-established position as co-ordinator of Language Instruction in the German Department, Stein developed the present teacher-training course...