Word: oar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John A. Hodges '62, of Mower Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa., was recently elected captain of the Freshman heavyweight crew. Hodges rowed for five years at Kent School in England, and his last year he performed at third oar on the first crew. He was on the team which faced Harvard in the Henley Regatta at Henley-on-the-Thames last spring...
...McClenan and Tory Everett along with sophomore Ken Gregg. These men provide a strong base for blending the rest of the crew. The oarsmen in the bow four are still undergoing change as Love seeks to find a crew which has both the necessary grace and power behind the oar...
...looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright works his men on the barge and rowing machines each fall, has them ready for the eight-oared shells when...
Removal of the 16-oar training boat from active use today symbolizes, in effect, the end of the first stage of training for the Yardlings and of the weeding out process among crew candidates. Today freshman coach Bill Leavitt has posted in the window of Leavitt & Peirce a list of those rowers and coxswains who survived the final fall crew...
...come on him, his head is generally raised towards the clouds. He is oblivious to life's petty details. In the movie's funniest scene, we find him out rowing with a young disciple. To demonstrate Newton's third law of motion, he pitches out first his own oar, then the student's, and, finally, their lunch. The role is amusingly played by G. Soloveyev...