Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson rowers comprise the biggest part of an eight-oared shell and all of one four representing the Union Boat Club in the regatta. The colors of the Weld Boat Club, of Eliot House, and of the Newell squad will emblazon the oars of seven other eights. Three singles and a quad (four oarsmen plying eight oars) will also represent the Weld Boat Club. A double (two oarsmen and four oars, without a cox) have been working out of Weld in the past weeks but won't enter the regatta as plans now stand...
...explanation of the alignment of boats in these races is in order. 150 pound crews, containing no man over 155 pounds are slower and can keep their pace for less distance than the average heavy eight. This is because much of the smoothness and drive of a shell is provided by the easy swing of the upper body and shoulders of the oarsmen at the catch and that, because light weights must make up in strength what they lack in beef, they muscle out a more strenuous and less rhythmic stroke. The Crimson third heavies versus the first...
Siragusa talked it over with his younger brother Dominic, 35, who runs Chicago's Molded Products Corp. For $90,000, Dominic had picked up a huge, 2,000-ton-pressure hydraulic molding press which had once stamped out shell casings...
Penn, a high-stroking, "sprint" crew was especially formidable over the short distance, but the Crimson's job was somewhat lightened by the fact that the Quakers' shell veered off the course until it came dangerously near the beach...
...Once the shell has settled at its regular pace, the main problem is for every man to concentrate on form, power, and timing. The coxswain maintains the latter rudder handles, saving his voice to tell the stroke what beat he is setting and where his boast stands in relation to the opposition...