Word: wagnerism
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...plight is a strange one. Stepping into Bill Rowe's stretchers the day after the Crimson vanquished Yale at New London in 1939, Wilson acclimated himself to the strange boat and successfully stroked the crew to victory at Henley two weeks later. Last year the beat out Colt Wagner and stroked the Varsity through a successful season, losing only 40 Cornell...
...Colt Wagner rose to the first boat during the spring vacation and Wolson went to the seconds, as Bolles sought to find the formula for a faster first crew. Now Bus Curwen, pace-setter of the undefeated Freshmen last year, has moved up to the Jayvees, at least for the time being...
From bow to stern the Varsity lined up as of a week ago: Bruce Pirnie, Paul Penneyer, Sam Goddard, Shorm Gray, Fred Herter, Hallett Whitman, Dave Challinor, stroke Colt Wagner, and coxswain Jimmy Ducey. The absence of Tony Villa from the middle of the Jayvee eight caused considerable shifting. Jerry Prince moved up from the thirds to take his place, and Buck Anderson filled the slide of the thirds which Prince vacated...
...shells stroked by Wagner and Wilson jumped ahead at the start, but by the first half mile Wagner had a length's lead over the Jayvees, and at the finish the Varsity went over the line with perhaps two and a half lengths of open water between them and their nearest adversaries...
There are no more evenings now of dressing to the ears and listening for hours on end to the stupendous heroics of Richard Wagner; no more evenings lying on his army cot at home as his Siemens record-changer riffles through the ponderous Germanisms of his other favorite, Anton Bruckner...