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As for Robby Meek, he is remembered by his old Penn teammates for his bad boy reputation  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

In 1976, our coxswain Bruce Larson played an oversized role in helping the '76 varsity to our undefeated record.  more

We are heading home now, two more straightaways before we get back to the boathouse. I am at my redline...  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

From my lofty position in the bow-seat I am surveying the race as it unfolds behind us, and I am very, very pleased with myself.  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

Cornell has settled to a very sensible and conservative 29 strokes per minute, Penn to a seldom-seen 41  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

Temperantia, Fiducia, Constantia - the ideals that Kent represented continued to provide me with inspiration... but they have also gotten me into a heap of trouble more than once  more

"Their three-man's passed out! Half a mile to go... get em!!!"  more

And I am still rowing. If I am not mistaken, there’s a bit of a pattern here.  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

This fellow walking beside me could tell me just about his whole rowing life story in four words flat: "Second" "Freshman" "Lightweight" "7".  more

In the picture of us throwing Mouse into the Schuylkill you can see Bill in the foreground giving the thumb's up to Whitey, who took the shot.  more

"Gentlemen," he asked. "How did we get so fast?"  more

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