If you lay back fast enough in a middling crab the handle may strike you once on the chest and once on the nose or forehead before it snags alongside of the boat. more
As the afternoon final for the varsity heavies approached, the headwind from the morning events reasserted itself and, unusually, a rather thick fog descended on the race course in Princeton. more
Either Mouse in the stern or Whitey from his motorboat tired of correcting our mistakes said to exaggerate our personal mistake whatever it was. In a moment as sudden as a thunderclap the crew came together. more
Neither of these persons knew that Marsh jumped his slide, which would have been the end of the season for us except that Marsh was an engineer and figured out how to get his seat back on its track. more
Tom Bolles came up to us on the Boston side of the Charles and said, "You fellows might have won that race if you weren't so long at the catch that you were pressing your gunwales together." more
Flash back several days to when we were still undefeated... Each year, all the huge crews at the IRA would turn up early in Syracuse for a week of intense preparation for the culminating three-mile race more
To find out how an eight-oared crew really feels, one wouldn't want to interview at either end where the people tend to be too smart-- true density lies in the middle more
I used to tell girlfriends that if a shoulder went out in one direction somebody else's elbow went out in the opposite direction thus keeping the boat balanced and level more
I can never forget rowing along on the Potomac when I heard Charlie's bullhorn amplified voice from almost half a mile away. "Number four," it said, "Press down your right knee more." more
Bob Olson has written a decorous account of how he came to row with us:
"Our crew consisted, I believe, of Engineers, Lawyers and Lost Souls. I was a Lost Soul..." more
Mouse, the designated driver, nevertheless set out for Philadelphia as four oarsmen inside the vehicle held its roof up with the balls of their feet. more