Word: oar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys from bigger schools both in studies and athletics. The most unusual mind (Schuyler B. Jackson. 1922) that Princeton has had in years was awakened at Pomfret. Yale's Mallory and Harvard's Buell were Pomfret bred footballers of recent fame. From Pomfret to Harvard went a great stroke oar, George Appleton; for Pomfret, like Kent, is one of the few rowing schools...
Upperclass coxswains are plentiful this year, both E. L. Belisle '31, first string steersman and former Olympic four-oar cox, and F. S. Holmes '31, jayvee cox, being available. Other promising candidates are A. H. Stebbins '32, L. E. Becker '32, L. L. Wadsworth '30, and Crispin Cooke '32. First-year coxes are also plentiful
...hopes among many of the Crimson followers since his previous record as stroke of the Junior Varsity crew indicates that at least he will be able to display the endurance necessary to handle the raise of heat at the end of the race. While not pulling as strong an oar as other oarsmen who have been previously tried out this season in the stroke seat, the favor of a narrow oar, such as was employed by John Watts '28 last year, may remedy the situation and allow him the reserve necessary for the final effort...
...Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign) in the backfield. And on the substitutes' bench sat Thomas Cochran (Morgan partner and Director of General Electric) and Ralph Delahay Paine (author of College Years, The Head Coach, The Stroke Oar, Campus Days...
...newcomer to the ranks of the heavy crews, T. N. Perkins, Jr. '31, who set the beat for the champion American Henley lightweight eight at Philadelphia last Saturday, was pulling the stroke oar in the class eight yesterday but it is not known whether he will be given a chance with the University crews. R. L. Pearson '31, stroke of the class crew which raced on the Schuylkill on Saturday, was also in the stroke seat of the class crew shell during yesterday's practice...