Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvey Leve, freshman coach and heir apparent to the head coach position when Bolles moves to the Athletic Director's office, got into the first shell and took the crew for a rigorous pull 2 1/2 miles downstream and piloted them back upstream...
...coach's chief problem will be to mold his crew into a smooth combination without sacrificing power. Two of the strongest oarsmen, Jim Slocum and Ted Anderson, are currently rowing in the J.V. shell because of form difficulties. Bolles will definitely attempt to restore Slocum, a regular all last year, to the first boat. Otherwise he doesn't plan to tamper much with the boatings that worked so well in the Cornell race...
...shell, Slocum will row at four and Anderson at five. Otherwise the beatings will be as usual. Easily the best J.V. in the East, the second boat should have no trouble in staying undefeated...
When the Princeton 150-pound varsity shell neared the quarter mile mark, the number two man, Jim Neff, caught a crab and was catapulted out of his seat into the Charles. The Tigers managed to limp in sixth ahead of Cornell, nonetheless...
Starting with a furious 52 at the Larz Anderson Bridge, the Journalists' shell kept up a steady 15 under the Weeks footbridge, while the 'Poonsters clung tenaciously to a six length lead. The "humorists" stayed ahead right up to the Western Avenue finish line, at which point the CRIMSON upped the beat to 64 and swept past to win by 23 lengths over the abbreviated two-mile course in the time...