Word: sculling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Single scull rowing, long the most popular individual sport in the college, has this year achieved new heights with Weld Boat House, home of the waterbugs, handling as many as 600 rowers in the course...
...example and influence as an amateur and a man, has done the most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship."* But even those heroes might be edged out by the winner for 1939, announced last week. It was 25-year-old Joe Burk, world's singles scull champion, unbeaten in 37 consecutive contests from 1937 through 1939, twice winner of the famed Diamond Sculls at Henley Regatta, and-as the Sullivan citation said-"a fine example of young American manhood...
...says he learned to scull by rowing himself and brothers to school on Rancocas Creek, which runs by the farm. At Penn he was captain of the crew, later sculled for Penn A. C. He was never any great shakes as an oar until he worked out a stroke which no one could beat or imitate-a jerky, robot-like chop with no layback, which gets his blades in & out from 38 to 45 times a minute (average sculler's stroke: 28 to 32). Until this winter, when he decided he was going stale, he trained all year round...