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Peruvian sailors watching the crazy craft under construction at Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Six on a Raft | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...Bolles on the other hand, has toyed with his Crimson combination only once, and then briefly. Early in the crew's stay at Red Top he switched Ollie Iselin to the J.V. beat, Ted Anderson to five oar in the varsity shell, and Steve Hedberg, the usual varsity five, to three--Iselin's old spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Seeks Vengeance Against Eli Tomorrow | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

George Gifford, number seven oar on the varsity crew, won the came position on an All-American rowing squad picked by the nation's coaches in collaboration with the Seattle Post Intelligencer, that paper revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Elect Gifford To All-American Crew | 6/21/1950 | See Source »

...closest competitor to Gifford for the All-American honor was Washington's seven oar, Rod Johnson. Other members of the "ideal" crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Elect Gifford To All-American Crew | 6/21/1950 | See Source »

Other news from the Crimson's training camp at Red Top near New London disclosed that the progress of the crew preparing for the four-mile test of June 23 was "normal." Reports that the three oar, Ollie Iselin, was to be replaced by Ted Anderson because of injuries turned out to be rumor when trainer Dr. Harrison Kennard, in Cambridge for his 25th reunion, testified that Iselin had fully recovered from a slight strain within 24 hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Elect Gifford To All-American Crew | 6/21/1950 | See Source »

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