Word: pocock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighty-first annual meeting with the Crimson, slated for June 1, on the Charles, is the only event on the proposed Eli schedule. Dick Pocock, whose brother George builds most American shells, is expected to be named as the Yale coach...
...into normal Harvard crew jaunts. Every year, the crew has packed away its own built-to-order Pocock shells for each race away from the home waters. This year, conditions justify only the sending of oars to Philadelphia. These were sent on Wednesday and most of the crew left yesterday to work themselves into whatever Pennsylvania offers them in the way of shells...
Three of the Crimson's Pocock shells headed South in one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's glorified horse cars yesterday afternoon as the vanguard of Harvard's expedition to Lake Carnegie, where the Varsity, Jayvee, and Freshman crews will risk their reputations against Princeton, Syracuse, and M. I. T. tomorrow...
...latest addition to the Crimson ravy is a George Pocock eight, the gift of Robert F. Herrick '90, Harvard rowing's angel. If Crimson shells were named by their donors as they are in most colleges, Tom Bolles would have to figure out some way of cataloging the slim mahogany craft, for Mr. Herrick has been supplying shells now for longer than most people can remember...
...shifting them to fit individual oarsmen less difficult, and the other is the addition or laminated washboards instead of solid ones. The new shell is marked on the stern "P 85," which means it is the eighty-fifth shell in order of acquisition, and that it was built by Pocock. Below these cryptic figures is a "41," standing of course for the year in which it was first used...