Word: squads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's race could be the main stumbling block to repeating such an outstanding season. Unfortunately Coach Laury Coolidge has so far been unsuccessful in finding the best combination of oarsmen In fact any combination that could consistently win inter-squad races has been extremely elusive. The eight racing as the varsity today was only Thursday the J.V. boat...
However rather than a display of weakness the tight competition is a sign of the squad's terrific depth and balance and can be looked upon as a dividend of last year's amazing results when every lightweight crew in the boathouse went undefeated throughout the season. The varsity eight contains five sophomores including stroke Tony Goodman. But perhaps the most surprising fact is that the three returning members of the championship Henley crew, --Rowell Chase, Mike Christian, and Captain Mark Hoffman--due to the reversal of varsity and J.V. boats on Thursday, are in the J.V. eight along with...
...events of this past week are a good example of the inconsistency that has plagued the squad. After violently mixing the lineups of his four boats all spring, Coolidge left intact the same combinations since last Monday. On that day the boat stroked by Hoffman, designed as the varsity, beat Goodman's J.V.'s by a full length. But Wednesday Goodman's boat trounced the varsity by a length of open water, or two boat-lengths in all. Then Thursday it repeated the performance, although winning by only a length, and so earned the right to race the varsity shell...
...Thursday night that he was convinced he could get a still stronger eight, and it is definite that next week will see further changes in the crews. One change will certainly bring Hoffman back to the first boat. Described by Coolidge as "one of the best oarsmen on the squad," he has been the nucleus of attempts to build a varsity boat throughout the year...
...extraordinary number of sophomores in the first two boats has proven rather a surprise on a squad which contains so many good upper-classmen. They are there, according to Coolidge, "because even though they have lacked form they have made the boat...