Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boat he will send down the Charles against Princeton has been together most of the spring, with only a couple of shifts. Steve Ells, powerful ex-Belmont Hill oarsman, switched from port to starboard after a month on the water. He's now in seven spot, behind captain and stroke Ed Mathews. One of three on the crew from the West Coast, Mathews had never rowed, much less stroked, before coming to Harvard...
...rather do the rowing than the telling," says former Crimson oarsman Ted Reynolds, who's finding it tough to save time for crew and business. "But I get a kick out of coaching." Gulding the freshman and varsity 150s is his first such job and he regrets having to leave it when the season's over. Reynolds took over the 150s last fall, temporarily, he thought. But he did no well that everyone wanted him to stay...
Three tailmen on the first eight knew the crew strokes, with Tony Murry from Belmont Hill, at starboard three, long-armed Pete Ludwig in two spot, and stubby Bill Warren, former Groton oarsman...
...Mist, knocked out of the race last year by a fall at the first jump, managed to clear all 30 barriers, win the 1953 Grand National by 20 lengths. ¶In London, in rowing's most rugged (4½ mi.) race, the Cambridge crew, with a Cambridge, Mass, oarsman named Louis McCagg pulling a sturdy No. 6 oar, upset Oxford by eight lengths. ¶In Columbus, Yale's well-balanced swimming team, piling up points in all but two of the 14 events, defeated Ohio State's defending champions 96½-73½, for the N.C.A.A. team...
...Exeter oarsman rowed on the freshman 150's and stroked the varsity 150 lb. crew for the '52 spring season. "Lincoln is an experienced, capable oarsman, with great interest in the sport," said Varsity Coach Harvey Love...