Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harry Parker, 29, has only been varsity coach for three years. So he has a lot to learn. When experts say this year's Harvard eight is one of the best college crews in the history of the sport, Parker not only agrees but goes up a stroke. "I suspect that this crew is faster than most, if not all, previous college crews-faster at whatever distance...
...Club in the Olympic trials. Now the Crimson is stronger, more mature, more confident. They average 6 ft. 3 in. and 180 lb.-including Coxswain John Unkovic, who stands 5 ft. 6 in. and weighs 120 lb. after dinner. Four of them-Captain and No. 6 Oar Paul Gunderson, Stroke Geoff Picard, No. 3 Oar Tom Pollock, No. 2 Oar Bob Schwarz-have been in the same boat since their freshman year at Harvard...
...tion race, which is made up of members of the second freshman and third varsity boats, and is raced only on this occasion. The Harvard boating will be: bow, Tony Parker; two, Ed Poliakoff; three, Bill Wolbach; four, Andy Larkin; five, Jake Fiechter; six, Geoff Lister; seven, Tom Scarvie; stroke, Clint Allen; and cox, Quentin Sullivan...
...true that both Clay and Listen were Olympic champions, Cassius in the butterfly stroke and Sonny in the high dive...
Though he never rowed in high school, Gunderson, still won the stroke position in the freshman boat. He moved up to the varsity at the No. 6 seat the next year and has been rowing there ever since...