Word: rowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assets to the Freshmen are an inside man from last year's Andover team (Andover can hardly know anything about Harvard since Lamar scarcely does), two left-handed quarterbacks (which may or may not be significant), a pretty heavy line ("its still fairly fat, though"), and far rower injuries than might be expected from a week of battering from the varsity. The team also boasts a probable fullback starter named Blitz...
...that it enters the water absolutely perpendicularly. The slightest variation from a 90 degree angle will cause the oar to "knife in" and dig too deeply into the water. When this happens, the handle of the oar is apt to come up suddenly and hit the unsuspecting rower in the stomach, often lifting him unceremoniously out of the boat and depositing him in the river...
...rower the terms "single," "compromise," and "wherry" have little meaning. Coach Dennison explains that the difference is in the construction of the boat. The beginning boat is the wherry. This craft is often called a "klinker" or a "lap-streak...
...indoor rowing machines employ the same principle as the treadmill, with the rower putting considerable effort into his work but apparently making no headway. Actual progress is not noted until the following spring when the rower steps into a real shell...
John Potter and Gus Merwin, one and six, were on the Freshman crew, Carl Seligman at stroke was a J.V. rower, and Dick Hunneman, seven, who rounds out the boat, is a Freshman from Browne and Nichols...