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Last week Navy's crew coach Richard Glendon telegraphed to Columbia's coach: "I can't lose and may win the Navy-Columbia race." He couldn't lose because Columbia's coach is Richard Glendon Jr. Any victory would be a Glendon victory...
This year's Annapolis eight apparently ranks with the greatest crews in the Navy's rewing history. It has beaten three crews this season by large margins, and according to prominent rowing critics, is likely to continue to win races for the rest of the season. Although the famous Glendon father-and-son combination is no longer at Annapolis, the bluejacket crew is rowing as well as any of the eights that rowed under the Glendon regime...
Coach Butler, the new and youthful mentor of the Midshipmen, was formerly an assistant of Coach Callow of Washington. Therefore the stroke he teaches is distinetly at variance with the Glendon style. However, he has not made the transfer too sharp for the veteran Navy oarsmen and the long Glendon finish, with the leaning back characteristic of Annapolis crews, is still noticeable...
Crew practice at Annapolis started recently, when fifty candidates reported to Coach Richard A. Glendon. This is Glendon's nineteenth consecutive season at the Naval Academy. Candidates for the Plebe crew, who have been working most of the winter under the direction of R. S. Glendon, Coach Glendon's son, are making good progress...
...first crew winning by a good length of open water. The crew this year has five veterans from last year's eight which defeated Columbia and New York University. Although there has been somewhat of a problem in finding a stroke, the crew has developed steadily under Coach Glendon, and in yesterday's work-out looked exceedingly fast...