Word: spracklin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Championships in Roudnice, Czech Republic, Harvard lightweight Coach Charlie Butt co-coached the national four with coxswain heavyweight crew alongside renowned coach Mike Spracklin...
...sport in which wins and losses depend as much on trigonometry and physics as brute strength and coordination, Spracklin, according to Butt, refined Butt's understanding of a rowing technique that would make Harvard's season extraordinary...
...Spracklin taught Butt an approach to familiarizing his crew with the stroke which maximized the work done by the oar blade in the water based on this principle: If a blade is forced into the water hard enough, Spracklin said, a mound of water forms in front of the blade that exerts a backwards force on the blade and thereby holds it firmly in the water...
...specific way to row from Spracklin," senior Sam Truslow said. "It was a great new stroke...