Word: coxswain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duccy, who was varsity coxswain in his undergraduate years, held the first practice for his intramural oarsmen the day before spring vacation. Since then he has drilled his boats assiduously except on Saturdays and Sundays...
...lineup for the season was Row, Kathn Smith, number two ear Henry Gardiner, three Ronald Dick, four, William P. Wodd, five, Walter Aikman, six, Erie Osborne, seven Mike Moras, stroke Oliver Scholle, and coxswain, Joshus Twilly
Using a 36-to-the-minute stroke, Princeton spurted into the lead. Harvard's 130-pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open...
However, shortly before the race, Coach Bolles will go over the course (with his coxswain if it is a strange river) and analyze weather conditions to determine whether the time that afternoon will be fast or slow. He then talks things over briefly with his stroke. There is not much to say, because the pattern for the race seldom varies from a pre-established form...
Once the shell has settled at its regular pace, the main problem is for every man to concentrate on form, power, and timing. The coxswain maintains the latter rudder handles, saving his voice to tell the stroke what beat he is setting and where his boast stands in relation to the opposition...