1948 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWS 1

THE CREWS ASSEMBLED

HERBERT LOWELL DILLON 47

CAPTAIN

OLYMPIC TRIALS 1948 LAKE CARNEGIE

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VARSITY
Childs Cup
F.Prioleau 50, R.Fowler 50, T.Seymour 49, H.Dillon 47 (Capt.),R.Thompson 46, P.Gardner 46, T.Plunkett 46, R.F.OConnor 50, F.F.Rosenbaum 48 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
G.L.Ohrstrom 50, J.W.Ballard 50, F.D.Reeve 50, J.G.Schaefer 50, J.S.Williams 50, W.F.Bernart 50, S.S.Halsey 50, F.R.Stoner 50, C.T.Hall 47 (Cox)

1948 HEAVIES PREPARE FOR PRACTICE

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SHELL CHRISTENINGS 2
DUTCH SCHOCH ERA
CHRISTENING THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Dutch and Jane Schoch Officiating

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CHRISTENING THE JOHN STORY WRIGHT 28 Mrs. Wright, Dutch Schoch, and the 1959 Varsity Squad

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FRESHMEN A
Class of 1951
C.Burkelman, W.E.Davis, R.P.Vivian, G.C.Gaines, A.V.Halsey, T.M.Marshall, A.Harvey, C.W.H.Dodge (Stroke), R.P.Bodine (Cox)

FRESHMEN B
Class of 1951
K.V.Dake, D.B.VanDusen, S.. Gambee, W.V.Carpenter, H.L.Corroon, A.B.Trowbridge, W.M.Iler, J.M.Anderegg (Stroke), A.A.Patchett (Cox)

CHILDS CUP REGATTA MAY 1, 1948

Princeton 9:14.3 Pennsylvania 9:22 Columbia 9:38.2

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Review of the 1948 Crew Year

To quote Coach Dutch Schoch and most of the 5,000 hoarse spectators on the banks of Lake Carnegie, Greatest crew race I ever saw, was the Compton Cup race. A quick starting, eager crew took the lead and kept it doggedly until a half-mile from the finish, where the Crimson crew pulled even, then raising the stroke to 36 pulled ahead. Princeton then came up to 35, then 37 and finally a top effort of 38 1/2. It was a dead heat going down to the wire, and the spectators were beside themselves, as neither crew would give an inch. But with two more strokes to go the Cantabs reached a stroke of 39 to send their shell across the winner by 12 precious inches. Harvards time was 8:52.8 and Princetons 8:53. The crew got its first victory in the impressive time of 9:14.3 considering the head wind funneling up the course. Penns oarsmen took the lead with a roaring 35 beat but the smooth-stroking Tigers kept a steady but more powerful 32 and won going away. The next race found the Tigers placing fourth in the Eastern Rowing Championships. In the summer Princeton played host for the first Olympic trials. An indication of the caliber of the countrys crews was given as six crews bested the mark set by the Washington Huskies in 1936. The Princeton victory in its heat might not have been the most decisive, but the frenzied crowds that watched agreed that it was one of the most exciting races ever held. It was a battle that gave credit to both the Yale and Princeton crews. It was a race that was neck and neck all the way, indeed, so close that only the cameras unbiased eye could pick the Tiger crew winner by two inches. This is the time in sports when two teams are so evenly matched man for man that it is the college try, the fighting heart, that means defeat or the fruits of victory. That Tiger crew deserved the laurels they won that day. Cornell, California, and Washington all won their heats, and although Cornell had the fastest time, the easy way in which the Westerners won their heats, never extending their stroke above 32, was impressive to one and all. The four winners advanced to the semi-finals, and additional heats held to pick three more crews for the semi-finals. Yale, Harvard, and West Side R.C. were the winners and got to the semifinals. The Tiger found himself pitted against the Bulldog once more and both teams were determined to show their superiority. The quick starting Princeton crew took the lead, and although Yale threatened every bit of the entire 2,000 meters, the Bengals never relinquished their lead. Yale rowed at the fantastic beat of 38 the entire race and even increased it to 43, but it was not enough. Princetons winning time was 6:13. The finals found Princeton, Harvard and California jockeying for position. The Tiger crew got off to a flying start and held the lead at first but the Golden Bears were not to be denied; they swept by all others and won going away. The Princeton crew, probably feeling the effects of its two close contests with Yale, had to be satisfied with third. Princeton placed second in the pair-oared shells without coxswain in the finals, the four-oared shell with coxswain bowed out in the semi-finals. At the end of the season Bob OConner was named stroke on the All-American crew team, while Pete Gardner was elected captain for 1949 by his crewmates.

150 Pound Crew

The powerful 150 pound team started their season with a close win over Penn and Columbia. Trips to Ithaca, N.Y. and Derby, Conn. resulted in defeating the lightweight crews of Cornell, Yale, Harvard, MIT. These races garnered the Wood-Hammond and Goldthwait Cups for Princeton. The Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) Championship Regatta was held on Lake Carnegie in May 1948 with Princeton once again besting all crews in a record time for the 1-5/16 Henley Mile of 7:04.4 earning the prestigious Joseph Wright Trophy. Though threatened from the start, the plucky crew hung on and put on more than enough steam to win at the end. In the finest rowing tradition after the race, the coxswain, Jack Eiler, was thrown in. As he climbed out of the water, flushed with victory, he made some joking remark about Now for the Henley, which is considered to be the Mecca of rowing. His teammates laughed, but it was not long after when they began to solicit from fathers and alumni the necessary $7,000 to finance the trip to England. The Tigers were outweighed by the favored Kent School crew, but the 150s refused to let the heavier and overconfident Kent crew frighten them and in the semifinals left the Kent crew with nothing but a copy of Life to bolster their sadly shaken nerves. The Princeton crew went on to defeat the Royal Air Force crew composed of ex Oxford, Cambridge, and some other English School oars by 2 3/4 lengths with a magnificent Princeton stretch spurt and became lightweight crew (continued) champs of the world.

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Winner: Thames Challenge Cup, Henley Royal Regatta July 3, 1948
Back Row: D. Spencer 45 (Coach), C.P.McLain 47, W.W.Tomlinson 50, M.W.Huber 49, R.O. Read 50, C.D.Cole 45, B.P.Atterbury 47 Front Row: N.T.Rogers 50, J.P.Eiler 47 (Capt.), J.M.Stone 50, A.P.Morgan 46, J.M.Hitzrot 50, H.L.Bird 50 __________

VARSITY

Wood-Hammond Cup Goldthwait Cup Joseph Wright Trophy

HEAVE HO
Capt. Jack Eiler 47 is dunked by Jack Stone 49, R.Read 50, B.P.Atterbury 47, C.D.Cole 45, J.M. Hitzrot 50, C.P.McLain 47, A.P.Morgan 46, M.W.Huber 49.

RETURN TO THE GLORY OF HENLEY

1949 Crew Both 1948 and 1949 Lightweights and 1949 Cottage Club crew (mixed Lights, Heavies, and novice cox) went to Henley

Standing: T. Plunkett 46, K. Young 50, G.Mayer 51, G.Ohrstrom 50, G.Gaines 51, Coach Jordan, D.Prioleau 50, C.Fawcett 51, P.Morgan 46, B.Bailey 51, M.Huber 49, B.Read 50, D.Spencer 45, E.Lawrence 50, Coach von Wrangell 53, H.Bird 50. Kneeling: J.Adamson 99, Coach Hughes 96, B.Fedyna 00, N.Rogers 50, B.Golden 99, D.Garbutt 01. Not in picture: T.Marshall 51, B.Tomllinson 50

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Review of the 1948 Crew Year

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Freshman Crew
cup races in which they competed. In these important races they finished fifth at Cambridge in the E.R.A.R., garnered a close second to Yale at Ithaca in their best effort of the year, and then finished off the season with another fifth in the Poughkeepsie Regatta where they raced against the best freshman crews of the nation. 1949 BRIC-A-BRAC

The 1948 freshman crew was handicapped by the lack of previous experience of its members and by the fact that a number of the schools they raced against had exceptionally fine yearling boats. Once the best combination was reached they steadily improved, but because of these handicaps they were able to gain only one victory during the course of the season. The highlights of the year for the oarsmen were their three length victory over Penn and the three big

1948 LIGHTWEIGHT SQUAD

Back Row: D.Spencer (Coach), P.Morgan, M.MacLain, C.Cole, M.Huber, F.Hayes, M.Decamp, R.Read, J.Stone, R.Schelling (Manager) Middle Row: N.Rogers, J.Donner, I.Iglehart, W.Tomlinson, J.Stier, W.Costen, B.Atterbury, J.Hitzrot, H.Bird, J.Eiler (Captain) Front Row: D.McLandless, N.Whitlock, K.Twitchell, H.Effron, D.Delanoy, W.Laird, J.Wite, J.Tilt

Finest Materials used for Crews New Shell

in honor of his son, new racing Jr, 1928, is exactly the same of New York is presenting to the Princeton Athletictree, probably annual rings encircling the Association Specifications of theS.M. Becker shell which Sherburn M. Beckeras used in the finest former Varsity crew captain, indicate airplane wing beams and webs. The ribwas at least 1000 years old. Only about that the craft will be the finest ever to be bands will be of laminated ash and spruce 20 per cent of a log from one of these floated in Lake Carnegie. It will be built and the outrigger shoulders of ash. trees is good for racing shell skin. by Pocock and is to be delivered to the The material used in the stem and stern The only metal parts used in the shell Association about March 1st. posts is Alaska yellow cedar, an excelare the outriggers and rowlocks. The Mr. Becker authorized Coach Logg, early lent wood which is as yet practically rowlocks are of phosphor bronze and the last fall to place an order with George unknown. The skin or planking is taken outriggers of steel tubing. These are proPocock, builder of racing shells at Seattle, from the giant, Washington red cedars. tected by a heavy coating of Duco. The Washington, for the finest boat he could This is a remarkable lumber, inasmuch as decks of the shell will be covered with turn out. it swells and shrinks very little, making it the finest of Japanese white silk. admirably suited for this use; also it is a The shell will be 60 feet long with a 23 THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN wonderful water wood and will not decay inch beam, 9-3/4 inches deep, and. will owing to the natural oil it contains which Monday, January 23, 1948 weigh approximately 280 pounds. The makes it impervious to rot. framework, such as the gunwales, keel, seal-stringers and ribbands, is being made It takes a very large tree to give good from Sitka spruce which has been obracing shell planking, and the last one tained at Sitka, Alaska. This is by far the that Mr. Pocock had cut was eight feet in strongest wood for its weight known and diameter and, according to the number of

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1949 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWS 1

VARSITY
G.Ohrstrom 50, P.Gardner 46 (Capt.), A.Halsey 51, J.Ballard 50, J.Williams 50, J.Butterworth 50, S.S.Halsey 50, T.Marshall 51 (Stroke), T.Hall 47 (Cox)

Carnegie Cup Childs Cup Record for 13/4 Mile Course 8 min. 41.7 sec. May 21, 1949

JUNIOR VARSITY
A.Hough 50, J.Anderegg 51, S.B.Gambee 51, G.Gaines 51, H.Prioleau 50, R.Fowler 50, T.Plunkett 46, R.B.OConnor 50, J.Maxwell 50 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1952
Back Row: W.Kappes, R.Summers, T.Osius, W.Brokaw, D.Duffield, J.Graham, C.Renfrew, W.Murdoch, R.Bennett (Stroke), K.Dawson (Cox) Middle Row: S.Liebes, R.Billings, P.Wright, W.Wright, C.Thompson, N.Clements, F.Trimble, D.Barr Front Row: G.Lamb, A.Sorenson, L.Anderson, G.Ford, C.Carpenter, R.Blakemore, W.Vega

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Review of the 1949 Crew Year

Coach Dutch Schoch has consistently produced a better crew each year since rowing was resumed at Princeton, and this year was no exception. At the rate Tiger crews have been improving under his direction, it shouldnt be long before the Bengals emerge as the top power of the East. This years record was one to be proud of although many of the experts foretold a poor season when Harvard swept the Compton Cup away from Princeton for the eighth year in a row. The victory-hungry eight returned from this defeat to show their wake to powerful Penn and Columbia eights in taking the coveted Childs Cup on the Harlem River. The Princeton crew failed to overtake Harvard and Penn in the Eastern Sprint Championships at Syracuse, but they returned to familiar Lake Carnegie to set a new record for the mile and three quarters. In taking the Carnegie Cup the Bengal crew rowed as smoothly as ever before and took a healthy lead during the first quarter that was challenged only once. Yale raised its beat progressively higher until it reached a terrific 41, and came on fast from third position to cut down the lead with every stroke, but the Tigers could not be denied as they passed over the finish line before five thousand roaring spectators a length ahead of the Eli eight. A phenomenal 11 seconds was knocked off Harvards 1948 record as the Tigers recorded an 8:44.7. The last race found the Princeton crew unable to overcome the superior power of the California and Washington aggregations, as the Tigers took fifth in the annual Poughkeepsie Regatta.

150 Pound Crew

After garnering the Wood Hammond and the Goldthwait Cups for their new coach, Chuck Von Wrangel, the Princeton 150-lb crew dropped an upset victory to Cornell in the 150-lb championships on Lake Carnegie. Nevertheless, they completed the season by again capturing the Thames Challenge Cup, the top prize in lightweight crew racing. 1950 BRIC-A-BRAC

Palm Beach Regattas 1947 1948

Rowing on Lake Worth, sunbathing on the Atlantic beach, a New Years Eve dance at Mar-aLago, the luxurious home of Marjorie Merriweather Post. This is winter training? Cornell and Penn tested the waters for the Palm Beach Regatta of 1947. Princeton and Yale joined in 1948. There were four days of practice on Lake Worth for Heavyweight Varsity and Junior Varsity crews. The well-publicized race took place on the afternoon of New Years Eve. Who won? Who knows? Who cared, when the crews could break training at Mrs. Posts elegant Spanish villa? The Regattas were a great success from the viewpoint of the oarsmen, but they were not continued in 1949.

1949 Thames Challenge Cup

There were 4 overseas entries, 2 from the Unites States, the winners, the Princeton University Lightweight and Tabor Academy, Witwatersrand University from Johannesburg, South Africa, also came over together with an interesting entry from the British Army of the Rhine. Princeton amply compensated for their Cottage Clubs failure in the Grand. Always at a lower rate of striking than their opponents they were in a class of their own. Only Lady Margaret could hold them to as little as 1 length in the final.

from the Stewards Race Summary Henley Royal Regatta July 1949

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NEW PRINCETON RECORD FOR 1 3/4 MILE COURSE
8 min. 41.7 sec. May 21, 1949

PETER V.W.GARDNER 46 CAPTAIN

(subsequently Varsity Crew Coach at Dartmouth for 35 years)

VARSITY, JUNIOR VARSITY, and FRESHMEN

Practice starts

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1949 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup Goldthwait Cup Thames Challenge Cup
A.P.Morgan 46, B.Bailey 51, A.H.Fawcett 51, B.P.Atterbury 47, R.A.MacKennon 51, M.W. Huber (Capt.) 49, R.O.Read 50, H.L.Bird 50, C.E.Lawrence 50 (Spare), N.T.Rogers 50 (Cox), J.G.Stier 50 (Spare)

1950 LIGHTWEIGHT CREW SQUAD

CLEOPATRAS BARGE
Early Spring Workout Note Ice on Lake

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VARSITY
Navy Trophy
K.Dake 51, C.Renfrew 52, A.Halsey 51, D.Duffield 52, J.Williams 50, T.Osius 52, S.Halsey 50, T.Marshall 51 (Stroke), E.Masinter 52

JUNIOR VARSITY
G.Ohrstrom 50, R.OConnor 50, W.Brokaw 52, J.Ballard 50, P.Brock 49, N.Clements 52, S.Gambee 51, B.MacDonald 50 (Stroke), J.Maxwell 50 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1953
C.A.Rooney, H.F.Whitney, T.D.Parsons, A.S.Rodgers, J.C.Beck, G.W.Daiger, S.L.Ertel, S.Y. Gibbon (Stroke), C.B.Lyle (Cox)

FRESHMAN SQUAD
Class of 1953
Back Row: C.B.Lyle (Cox), C.A.Rooney, H.F.Whitney, B.Simpson, A.S.Rodgers, J.C.Beck, G.W.Daiger, S.L.Ertel, S.Y.Gibbon, T.C.Matthews (Cox) Middle Row: ?, M.N.Mueller, H.A.Minners, J.E.Strong, R.W.Cook, E.P.Conquest, F.S.Wonham, H. Pilskaln Front Row: ?, C.F.Pillsbury, J.J.Nachtrieb, ?, W.H.Weed, E.Groom

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Review of the 1950 Crew

The season was one of progressive development under Coach Schoch, while the competition between the varsity and the able jayvee eights was keen throughout, with the latter taking the formers place in the Carnegie Cup race. The varsity compiled a winning percentage of .517 with fifteen victories against fourteen defeats. After placing third behind Harvard and M.I.T. and Pennsylvania and Columbia, in the Compton and Childs Cup races respectively, the Tiger oarsmen reached their peak in the E.A.R.C. and Carnegie Cup regattas. Cornell succeeded in edging the Tiger varsity in the final heat despite a Tiger victory in the four preliminaries. In June the varsity journeyed to Marietta, Ohio for the national championships. Like all the other crews they were hampered by the swollen conditions of the Ohio River. Amidst the confusion of fifteen shells crossing the finish line at approximately the same time, the Princeton crew emerged in ninth place, an outcome certainly satisfactory for Princeton considering the caliber of the competition. In contrast to the at-times-mediocre showings of the varsity, the jayvee enjoyed a uniformly successful season. While second to Pennsylvania in the Childs Cup, the Tiger junior varsity recorded first in the Compton and Carnegie Cup races and another second (in a field of thirteen) in the E.A.R.C. At Marietta, the jayvee posted a highly creditable fifth-place finish.

Class of 1953 Freshman Crews

The Freshman heavies finished a very creditable year at Marietta with a second-place finish in the national championships. The 150-lb Freshman crew made a satisfactory showing with the wins over Columbia and Penn, and the third place in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Regatta.

150 Pound Crews

Starting off in fine fashion by capturing the Wood Hammond Cup from Columbia, the varsity 150s never again reached top form, losing the Goldthwait Cup to Pennsylvania and finishing fifth in the Eastern Championships. The Jayvees had better luck, placing second in the EARC after losing only to Harvard and Yale. 1951 BRIC-A-BRAC

1950 Jayvee Crew

GOODBYE POUGHKEEPSIE
There will be no more Poughkeepsie Regattas. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association has decided to move the site of the National Intercollegiate Regatta to Marietta, Ohio, despite a 55 year-old tradition and the protests of Columbia and Navy who have maintained expensive boathouses at the Poughkeepsie site. The Poughkeepsie location has many draw-backs. The currents are tricky in the Hudson River, giving crews unequal conditions, and frequent storms hamper the rowing. In addition, the observation train that followed the races and provided a good deal of revenue for the Rowing Association was discontinued in 1941. At Marietta, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has promised an observation train and the townspeople have offered $20,000 to help meet expenses. The problem of housing for the crews, has been met by the offer of the use of the Marietta College dorms. The best feature of the new site is the three-mile course on the Ohio River with dams both above and below it, which keeps the currents even. It is hoped that the advantages of the new site will far outweigh the inconvenience of distance. Princeton Rowing News April 1950

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VARSITY
J.Hitzrot 50, R.Billings 52, N.Moffat 52, W.Lee 51, A.H.Fawcett 51, I.Iglehart 49, R.O.Read 50, H.L.Bird 50, N.T.Rogers 50 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
T.R.Odell 50, J.G.Stier 50, C.E.Lawrence 50, C.L.Saunders 52, J.A.McKenna 50, C.Baker 52, G.M.Mayer 51, D.P.Fogle 51, W.C.Kappes 52 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1953
W.A.Faber, R.D.C.Long, H.E.Miller, J.D.C.Barr, Beckley, G.L.Marshall, F.F.Schock, S.B.Pell, R.E.Cape (Cox)

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1951 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITY
F.F.Schock 53, J.L.Neff 53, N.A.Moffat 52, D.P.Fogle 51, G.M.Mayer 51 (Capt.), W.S.Lee 51, A.H.Fawcett 51, S.B.Pell 53, W.C.Kappes 52 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY

W.A.Faber 53, J.C.Schmidt 52, A.H.Fawcett 51, J.T.Pierson 53, J.K.Donnell 53, J.S.Burr 53, H.E.Miller 53, R.D.C.Long 53, R.E.Cape 53

LOADING SHELLS
In a Railway Express Car en route to Spring Practice in Florida

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VARSITY
Compton Cup Navy Trophy
W.Brokaw 52, T.Marshall 51, S.Gambee 51, D.Duffield 52, J.C..Beck 53, A.Rodgers 53, S.Ertel 53, S.Gibbon 53 (Stroke), E.Masinter 52 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
W.F.Murdoch 52, J.M.Anderegg 51, R.P.Vivian 51, C.L.Harper 52, W.H.Russell 51, D.B.VanDusen 51, R.G.Summers 52, R.A.Bennett 52, K.G.Dawson 52 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1954
R.W.Hardy, H.C.Reister, J.K.P.Stone, D.P.Robinson, B.Hart, F.L.Edelman, R.E.Slocum, J.J.Humphrey (Capt.), C.Apy (Cox)

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Review of the 1951 Crew Year

Four months of hard practice under disciplinarian, Dutch Schoch, integrated four new sophomores and four returning lettermen into a smooth-working first boat that looked promising . . . A gray day opened the varsity season, but all Navy saw was Orange and Black, Princetons heavies won the race by breaking away at the half-way mark, but the J.V.s. were not able to match this . . . The Nassau varsity reversed the racing pattern on the previous week by assuming an immediate lead over Penn, Columbia and Rutgers in the Childs Cup. Only the Quakers could give them a duel, but in the last quarter mile one Tiger oarsman caught a crab, so that boat slowed for two seconds. A great sprinting effort fell short of regaining the lead. The other Princeton crews made a clean sweep of the river prior to the heavies setback. The 150-lb. Varsity romped home over Columbia in the fine time of 6:58.5 over the Henley distance. The J.V.s won by a length over Penn and Columbia . . .Harvard had notched ten consecutive victories in Compton Cup competition under Coach Tom Bolles when Princeton met them at mid-season form on the Charles River. For the Cantabs golden decade of rowing it was a simple case of apres moi le deluge. Princeton made sports headlines by its impressive boatlength victory. Harvard got some revenge in winning the J.V.race . . . Yale had a great crew, undefeated in American competition, which showed its winning form to Princeton, Cornell and Syracuse in the Carnegie Cup test. The Tigers trailed the Elis to second place on Lake Cayuga, but did not look outclassed. The J.V.boat finished in the same pattern in its four-boat field as the varsity . . . Yale and Harvard swept the Goldthwait Cup races the same day in Boston over the varsity and J.V. 150-lb. shells . . . The Eastern Sprint Championships held the attention of the rowing world on May 12. Ten thousand spectators watched the Princeton heavies win their first heat. The Tigers, however, did not have the strength to take their second race and lost to Yale and Harvard in the finals. The J.V.s turned in their best performance of the season to date by capturing third behind Yale and Cornell. The varsity 150s lost a man overboard in the Charles, and so did not place well in their championships, but the J.V. lightweights took third among seven shells . . . At Marietta the Nassau heavies shut out the other Eastern rowing powers, but lost to Wisconsin and Washington. The swollen Ohio River put a premium upon the shells starting position in the fast current. The J.V. boat lost its rudder in a ramming accident with Navy, but a determined coxswain steered the Tigers over the entire course with his hands.

Freshman Varsity
To start the season, the Frosh heavyweight crew, racing on Lake Carnegie, outlasted the Navy Plebes to win in the last twenty strokes. In the next race they jumped to an early and decisive lead over Pennsylvania, Columbia and Rutgers in the Compton Cup competition. At the finish they held a three-length margin. The next week, Coach Gardners young charges raced the Cantabs to a two-length victory on the Charles River. The frosh lost their only cup race to Cornell on windswept Lake Cayuga. At least the Yalies wound up behind them. However, in the Eastern Sprint Championships, the cubs reversed their Carnegie Cup loss to Cornells oarsmen of 54 and took second place to an improved Navy eight. The frosh finished the season with a solid fourth at Mariettas rain-swollen regatta.

150 Lb. Freshman

Coach Von Wrangels freshmen 150s had one of the fastest boats in the East, but their rowing did not evidence it until the Eastern Spring Championships. The first boat triumphed over Columbia and Harvard, while losing close races to Penns 4th varsity boat and Yale. In the seven-crew Eastern Sprint Championships, the Tiger cubs lost only to Yale, and to them only by a coat of deck paint on the Blue bow. 1952 BRIC-A-BRAC

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HEAVIES ON LAKE
S.Ertel 53, A.Rodgers 53, J.Beck 53, D.Duffield 52, N.Clements 52, T.Marshall 51 (Capt.), S.Gambee 51, C.Harper 52, E.Masinter 52 (Cox)

LIGHTWEIGHT FRESHMEN
Class of 1954
R.M.Westberg, R.E.Parker, D.R.Tomb, L.L.Farrar, A.B.McCrum, I.P.Hall, P.Hopkinson, F.C.Ellis, D.G.Powell (Cox)

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COACHES
COACH JAMES A. RATHSCHMIDT
Crew Assistant Lightweight Coach Heavyweight Freshman Coach First Womens Crew Coach 1938-40 1940-42 1946-50 1971

(Subsequently Varsity Crew Coach at Yale)

Rathschmidt Could Use Merriwells

NEW HAVENThe Career to date of Jim Rathschmidt, new crew coach at Yale, might well have been written by Horatio Alger. Now all the personable young mentor needs is Burt L. Standish to provide a few Frank Merriwell heroes to complete the script. Alger would have pounced on such elements of the Rathschmidt story as his start as a crew-struck kid hanging around the boathouse at Princeton, where his uncle, Johnny Schultz was the rigger and his father was in the ground and buildings department. Young Jim spent all his spare time with his uncle, learning everything there was to know about rigging a shell, and drinking in the talk and technique of the sport that probably makes greater fanatics out of its devotees, than almost any other. He was able to take up rowing himself as a student at Hun School, where he worked his way through, but he was never able to go to college. He had to be content with an assistants job, helping his uncle run the launches and always being on hand, until he came back from Army duty and was given the Princeton freshman coaching job. His Tiger cubs did remarkably well and Rathschmidt became one of the most personally popular coaches in Princeton. He was more of a Princetonian, imbued more deeply with Tiger tradition than many Princeton graduates, and it was therefore a terrific wrench for him when the opportunity came for the Yale job after Skip Walzs resignation last Summer. They deliver groceries on hard cash, not college sentiment, in these inflationary times however, and the Yale post was too good an opportunity for even the most rabid Princetonian to turn down. Currently, there are no Merriwells in sight to help Rathschmidt work any immediate miracles with an unhappy crew situation at a college with one of the oldest and strongest rowing traditions in the country. Prospects are not bright for an outstanding season, but there is no pessimism detectable in Rathschmidts smiling mien as he goes over the outlook. I think youll find Yale crews rowing faster, at least I hope so, he says with a twinkle in his eye. My methods are a little different from what the boys have been used to. Ive changed the style some to the same one we used at Princeton, and my conditioning methods arent quite so rugged, but I think theyll pay off with a livelier crew on race day. in 1949, when Yale upset the Crimson for the first time in 15 years, at the end of a mediocre season, the Elis relapsed into one of their worst campaigns last year. The freshman crew also was weak, and there is a lot of rebuilding to be done. Of course, the big thing is beating Harvard. Thats what really counts here. Its going to be a tough job, but were not counting ourselves out, Rathschmidt says. His many friends at Princeton are not counting him out either, in spite of the poor prospects on paper. If Yale crews have the same loyalty and spirit he imparted to his Tiger freshmen, they know that Yales opponents are in for some rugged afternoons on the water.

Newark News 1951

Poor Campaign in 50

After a miracle win over Harvard

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1952 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWS 1

VARSITY
Carnegie Cup 2nd at I.R.A. 2nd at U.S.Olympic Trials
W.V.Brokaw 52, D.P.Robinson 54, B.Hart 54, D.M.Duffield 52, J.C.Beck 53, C.L.Harper 52, S.L.Ertel 53, T.G.Osius 52, E.M.Masinter 52 (Cox, Capt.)

JUNIOR VARSITY
S.Liebes 52, J.A.Rupley 54, R.C.Bennett 54, F.L.Edelman 54, R.W.Hardy 54, G.W.Daiger 53, H.MacFarland 54, J.J.Humphrey 54, C.B.Lyle 53 (Cox)

TRADITION OF COACHING
CONSTANCE S. TITUS with DUTCH SCHOCH
at Class of 04 Fiftieth Reunion in 1954

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Review of the 1952 Crew Year

CREW, one of the oldest and most exacting sports at Princeton, compiled a successful record in a season capped by strong showings in two national regattas . . . Opening with the Childs Cup race at Philadelphia, both the varsity and jayvees finished behind Penn but ahead of Columbia. Only the freshmen managed to eke out a win. On April 26 the crews journeyed to Annapolis where they were blanked by powerful Navy. The Middie varsity came in two lengths ahead of the Tigers, their jayvee won by four lengths, and the Plebes by one and a half ... The next weekend Princeton was host to the Compton Cup regatta. The smooth Harvard boat took the varsity event, with Princeton second, ahead of MIT and Rutgers. In the jayvee race a Harvard broken oarlock gave the Princeton boat the break it needed, and the Tigers went ahead to win by a length. The freshmen won easily against MIT and Rutgers. On May 10, in the Carnegie Cup regatta, the first two boats finally showed their true calibre, winning the varsity race by half a length, with Yale and Cornell behind them in that order, and the jayvee encounter by two feet. The freshmen, however, did not fare so well, finishing ahead of Yale but behind Cornell. . . . On May 17 the EARC 2-kilometer sprints were held on Lake Carnegie. In its morning heat, the varsity was eliminated by one stroke by Wisconsin, winner of last years Marietta regatta, in the fastest time of the day. The jayvee, however, won its heat and finished fourth behind clean-sweeping Navy, Penn and Harvard in the after-noon final. The freshmen lost by a length and a quarter to the Penn frosh in their heat. . . At Syracuse on June 21 the varsity came in second, the jayvee sixth, and the freshmen third. The varsity defeat was to Navy, who later bested them in the Olympics tryouts by the same three-length margin. 150- POUND CREW, coached for the first season by Art Sueltz, had a spotty overall record, as the freshmen shell consistently won and the varsity and jayvees consistently lost . . . The Tiger varsity oarsmen opened the season with a loss to Penn and Columbia. In the jayvee race, Columbia won over the NYAC and Princeton, while in the freshman race it was Princeton, Columbia and the NYAC, in that order. The next week, on Lake Carnegie, Harvard won the varsity race (and with it the Goldthwait Cup) and the jayvee encounter, with Princeton finishing third in both races. Again, however, the Tiger yearlings won, beating Harvard and Yale. . . In the EARC sprints, the varsity, after qualifying for the finals in a morning heat, finished behind Penn, Harvard, and Yale in the final. The jayvee was beaten by Harvard and Cornell and did not get to the finals, but the freshmen won their heat and went on to beat MIT, Yale, and Cornell with a time only .4 seconds behind that of the Penn varsity. In its last race, for the Wood-Hammond trophy, the Tiger varsity rowed its best race of the year but was simply overpowered by the championship Penn boat. The Penn jayvee also won, but the local frosh were victorious by six lengths, ending their season as one of the best crews in the country. 1953 BRIC-A-BRAC

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OLYMPIC TRIALS
Semi Finals Princeton - 1, Washington - 2, Cornell - 3 Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass. July 4, 1952

EDGAR M. MASINTER 52
CAPTAIN

FRESHMEN SQUAD
Class of 1955

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1952 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITY
R.M.Westberg 54, M.T.Jacobs 54, D.R.Tomb 54, R.G.Miller 54, J.K.Donnell 53, R.E.Parker 54, P.Hopkinson 54, R.D.C.Long 53, W.C.Kappes 52 (Capt.)

UNDEFEATED FRESHMEN
Class of 1955
W.L.Clark, J.H.Lindsey, H.Wendt, R.F.Purdy, C.M.Hackeett, T.C.H.Webster, J.W.Johnson, J.B.Owen, J.W. Sibley (Cox)

E.A.R.C.CHAMPIONS
Harvard, Yale, Penn, Cornell, MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth, New York A.C.

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HEAVIES AND LIGHTS ASSEMBLED

(Photo taken in Fall of 1952)

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VARSITY
Childs Cup Compton Cup
J.Humphrey 54, S.Ertel 53, A.Rodgers 53, J.Beck 53, H.Reister 54, B.Hart 54, D.Robinson 54, C.Orr 55, C.Lyle 53 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
G.Daiger 53, H.Robinson 55, R.Dayan 55, W.Somerville 55, A.Alexander 55, R.Hardy 54, J.Rupley 54, N.Stone 54, M.Jacobs 54 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1956
P.Willauer (Capt.), G.Kunkel, J.Detjens, W.Kirkham, D.Kirwan, P.Howell, S.Dunn, S.Cromwell, R.Haselkorn (Cox)

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Review of the 1953 Crew Year

Crew, long successful at Princeton, reached a new apex in 1953 when the Tigers 150-pound eight won the EARC Championships and proceeded to England to break the course record for the Royal Henley Regatta. The history of this race, now recorded among the highlights in the long Princeton athletic storybook, began in the Spring of 1952. It was then that eight freshmen rowed the Frosh 150-pound boat to victories in every race and captured the Eastern Intercollegiate sprint championships. Boosted by the influx of this eight the 1953 varsity boat began the season on Lake Carnegie, April 21. With sophomore Brin Owen at stroke Princeton easily outclassed Columbia. The varsity lightweights went on to win a hard-fought race over Yale and Harvard at Derby, Connecticut the following Saturday. In this race a fine finishing sprint on the rough Housatonic regained the Goldthwait Cup for the Tigers. Two weeks later Coach Art Sueltzs eight travelled to Philadelphia to meet Pennsylvania, two years Eastern champions and winners of the Royal Henley Regatta in 1951 and 1952. On the Schuylkill River the Princeton boat rowed their finest race of the regular season to cross the finish line two lengths ahead of Penn and end the Quakers three year winning streak. The season reached its initial climax during the E.A.R.C Championships. After sweeping through the morning qualifying heats, the Princeton eight returned in the afternoon to best Yale, M.I.T. and Harvard. With calm conditions on Lake Carnegie, and a weekend crowd of dates lining the shores, the 150s performed brilliantly crossing the finish line in a record breaking 6:41.2. A month later the crew carried their shell off the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton, England and resumed rowing at Henley. In the first heat the Tigers easily overcame Balliol College, Oxford. The next day, racing a highly-rated crew from Germany that outweighed Princeton thirty pounds to the man, the Nassau boat rowed the finest race of their career. Finishing with a magnificent sprint at 43 strokes per minute, the 150-pound eight won by a narrow margin and broke the Henley course record by six seconds. On the final day of racing, tired from their record superlative efforts and facing a fine British Royal Air Force boat, Princeton lost a hard-fought race by a quarter length. A finishing sprint, started too late, gained 1-1/2 lengths but it wasnt enough to win. The Heavyweight varsity broke Penns hold on the Childs Cup by outdistancing second place Columbia and Penn in the years opener. The following week Princeton lost to the greatest crew of the decade Navys Olympic champions, who powered to a convincing, four-length triumph on Lake Carnegie. The Bengal boat snapped back on May 2, defeating Harvard and M.I.T. at Cambridge to gain possession of the Compton Cup, but the next Saturday Princeton lost ownership of the Carnegie Cup to a surprising Cornell crew but finished second ahead of Yale. Princeton failed to qualify for the finals in the annual E.A.R.C Regatta at Washington, D.C. and viewed the winning Navy boat from its eighth place position in the I.R.A. Championships at Syracuse on June 20. Freshman Crews Although the Freshmen crews under the guidance of coaches Pete Gardner and Art Sueltz experienced only moderate success, through diligence and strenuous practice, the 150-pound and heavyweight boats exhibited final coordination that should enhance future Princeton varsity crews. The Frosh heavy crew launched its first collegiate race by showing a none-too-slow three-length wake to second place Penn to claim the Childs Cup at New York. With added impetus the Cubs next swept Lake Carnegie spray on the trailing Navy Plebes finishing their plight in 9:02.1. Deigning to establish the laudable habit the Frosh entered the eventful Compton Cup regatta at Cambridge, where a small excursion craft managed to intercede. Princeton was forced to abandon their winning lead to elude the persistent obstacle, but the record was salvaged when the referee ruled no contest. With new teeth to their bite, the Frosh managed a close second behind a polished Cornell boat in the Eastern Sprint Championships and thirds in both the 2,000 meter E.A.R.C. Championships at Washington, D.C. and the I.R.A. regatta at Syracuse with Washington and Cornell taking the honors. The Freshman 150-pound crew struggled through a disappointing season with marked improvement only at the completion of its schedule. The opener found Princeton clocking the Henley distance in an inexperienced 7:03 to defeat a weak Columbia eight by six lengths. A week later Princeton was bracketed by Harvard and Yale crews in a triangular meet at Derby, Connecticut. Princeton cut the foreign Schuylkill waters to post its best time of the season but found inability to be decisive as a powerful Penn boat swept the course by several lengths. On May 16, the Princeton 150s seemed to forget past tribulations and brilliantly responded to Malloys stroke to quash Cornells final desperation sprint and emerge surprise victor of the Eastern Intercollegiate Rowing Association with the good time of 6:46.7. 1954 BRIC-A-BRAC

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UNDEFEATED VARSITY
E.A.R.C.CHAMPS Goldthwait Cup Wood-Hammond Cup Wright Cup
A.B.McCrum 54, G.D. Kirkham 55, J.K.Donnell 53, T.C.H.Webster 55, C.M.Hackett 55, R.F.Purdy 55, J.W.Johnson 55, J.B.Owen 55, D.G.Powell 54 (Capt. & Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
Back Row: S.G.Nauman 55, J.H.Lindsey 55, H. Wendt 55, R.G.Miller 54, W.T.Terry 55, R.D.C.Long 53, W.C.Hendricks 55, M.T.Jacobs 54 (Capt.) Front Row: M.D.Williams 54, J.H.Sorenson 55 (Cox). J.W.Sibley 55 (Cox), W.A.Faber 53

FRESHMEN
Class of 1956 E.A.R.C. CHAMPS
M.S.Raymond, D.M.Blue, C.R.Merritt, W.W.Satterfield, A.F.Korhammer, E.C.Stumpp, R.R.Brink, Malloy J.H.Rose, D.C.Schall, R.M.Laughlin (Coxswains)

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1953 LIGHTWEIGHT VICTORIES

VARSITY
E.A.R.C. Winners on Lake Carnegie New Record Time 6:41.2
J.B.Johnson 55, A.B.McCrum 54, J.K.Donnell 53, T.C.H.Webster 55, C.M.Hackett 55, G.D.Kirkham 55, R.F.Purdy 55, J.B.Owen 55, D.G.Powell 54 (Capt. & Cox), Art Sueltz (Coach)

ABOARD THE QUEEN ELIZABETH

Back Row: G.D.Kirkham 55, J.B.Owen 55 (Stroke), C.M.Hackett 55, T.C.H.Webster 55, H.Wendt 55 Front Row: A.Sueltz (Coach), A.B.McCrum 54, J.B.Johnson 55, J.K.Donnell 53, D.G.Powell 54 (Capt. & Cox), R.F.Purdy 55

VARSITY SETTING COURSE RECORD

Henley-on-Thames; July 2, 1953; 6 min. 45 sec.
A.B. McCrum 54, G.D.Kirkham 55, J.K.Donnell 53, T.C.H.Webster 55, C.M.Hackett 55, R.F.Purdy 55, J.W.Johnson 55, J.B.Owen 55, D.G.Powell 54 (Capt. & Cox)

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VARSITY
J.Detjens 56 (Stroke), H.Robinson 55, J.Humphrey (Capt.) 54, B.Hart 54, H.C.Reister 54, S.Cromwell 56, S.Dunn 56, R.Hardy 54, M.Jacobs 54 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
F.Edelman 54 (Stroke), J. Noye 55, A.Kirwan 56, J.Gartin 54, J.Rupley 54, W.Somerville 55, A.Alexander 55, T.Davenroy 54, T.Evans 55 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1957
C.D.Robinson, L.M.Strayer, M.J.McTighe, B.D.Williams, P.S.Schirm, S.B.Strang, D.P.F.Hess, G.C.Thomas, B.B.Morgan (Cox)

LIGHTWEIGHT SECOND FRESHMEN FOUNDER

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Review of 1954 Crew Year

Crew, long successful at Princeton, had a rather disappointing season in 1954. Only the Tiger 150-pound varsity eight, undefeated in 1953, was able to put together a winning boat. The varsity lightweight shell opened the season by defeating Columbia in a disheartening race for the Lions who were temporarily blocked by a small boat. A week later the 150-pounders overcame Cornell at Ithaca with a slow time due to poor weather conditions. Coach John Stiegmans eight then successfully defended the Goldthwait Cup in the traditional Harvard-Yale-Princeton race, although MIT, ineligible for the Cup, stroked first across the finish line. In the Eastern Sprint Championships defending Princeton was again nosed out by the MIT boat, but in their final meet, the Tigers overcame Penn to retain the Wood Hammond Cup. The Heavyweight Varsity, in opening its season, was defeated by the greatest crew of the decade, Navys Olympic Champions. On Lake Carnegie the following week, the varsity shell unsuccessfully defended the Childs Cup as Penn celebrated the 25th anniversary of the competition by posting its second fastest time for the Princeton course. On May 1, a smooth-stroking Harvard crew, setting a new Lake Carnegie record for the Compton Cup, took the prize home to Cambridge for the twelfth straight time. The three final races of the season were equally unsuccessful, as Princeton finished third in its effort to regain the Carnegie Cup, failed to qualify in the annual E.A.R.C. Regatta in Washington, and viewed the winning Navy shell from a ninth place position in the I.R.A. Championship at Syracuse on June 19. The Junior Varsity won the Childs Cup race against Penn and Columbia, came in third to Navy and Harvard in the E.A.R.C. finals, and finished seventh in the I.R.A. Regatta after being thrown off by the wake of a coachs launch. The Junior Varsity 150-pound shell failed to win a contest, although several races were close. After the season the coxswain of the Navy crew was declared ineligible for 1954, and thus, although the Middie victories were not taken away, the Academy returned the E.A.R.C. and the I.R.A. Cups to the committees, which will hold them until 1955. Climaxing an otherwise unsuccessful season with a strong final performance, the Freshman Crew was able to win only one of its five regular season races. Opening their campaign against Navy at Annapolis, the yearlings battled down to the wire only to lose the contest by five feet. Returning to Lake Carnegie, the crew was defeated by Pennsylvania for the Childs Cup, but the next week the freshmen earned their single victory with an easy win over MIT and Rutgers for the Compton Cup. The remainder of the season was dominated by Cornell. The Big Red crew swept to victory in the Carnegie Cup race at Ithaca and the E.A.R.C. Regatta in Washington, establishing itself as one of the finest freshmen crews in Cornell history. The Tiger Frosh finished fourth at Ithaca and were eliminated in the second heat at Washington. But on Lake Onondaga on June 19, the first-year boat showed the fire it lacked all season, beating two crews to whom it had previously lost, and placing fourth behind Cornell, Washington, and Navy in the Intercollegiate Rowing Associations Regatta. The Freshman 150s fared little better, winning but twice in their five races. After opening with an easy victory over Columbia, the crew lost twice, first to Cornell and then to Harvard, MIT and Yale, at Cambridge. On Lake Carnegie, rowing for the Joseph Wright Cup, the lightweights outpaced Cornell to take second place behind Harvard, then closed the season with an exciting half-length victory over Pennsylvania. 1955 BRIC-A-BRAC

Freshman Crews

I would say that the highlight of my Princeton career was being a member of the Lightweight Crew. I rowed here for four years and was fortunate enough to be a spare oarsman on the championship 56 crew that went to Henley, and then a member of the Henley crew that won the Thames Challenge Cup in 1957. It was one of the most wonderful things you can imagine. During my freshman year I was on the second lightweight boat. One of our first races was against a schoolboy crew on the Potomac River outside Washington. As we were racing there was a crunch under my number 2 seat when we struck a submerged rock in the swollen river. Water started welling up into the boat as we swiftly sank. A police launch came to our rescue with a press photographer on board. The next morning we appeared in a five-column spread in the sports section of the Sunday New York Times. That was my first notoriety as a Princeton oarsman because my photograph was distributed not only nationwide, but apparently worldwide, sinking in the Potomac River as a member of the Princeton crew. Peter S. Liebert 57

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VARSITY
Goldthwait Cup Wood-Hammond Cup
J.W.Johnson 55, R.F.Purdy 55, C.R.Merritt 56, W.R.Kirkham 56. A.F.Korhammer 56, T.C.H.Webster 55, C.M.Hackett 55, W.W.Satterfield 56, D.G.Powell 54 (Capt. & Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY

M.D.Williams 54, T.H.Logan 55, R.E.Becker 55, I.P.Hall 54, W.T.Terry 55, D.M.Blue 56, S.G.Nauman 55, W.S.Gatley 54, J.H.Sorenson 55 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1957
J.Newcomer, J.Badham, J.D.Soutter, P.Williamson, W.McMillan, D.Buckard, C.Chestnut, S.Gross, H.P.Elliott, F. Martin (Cox)

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VARSITY
Goldthwait Cup Wood-Hammond Cup
J.Newcomer 57, R. Purdy 55, R.Brink 56, D.W.Thomas 55, A. Korhammer 56, T.Webster 55 (Capt.), C. Hackett 55, W. Satterfield 56, J.Sorenson 55 (Cox)

S.G.Nauman 55, J.T.Badham 57, J.D.Soutter 57, P.S.Liebert 57, W.McMillan 57, A.L.Fletcher 57, C.R. Merritt 56, D.Williams 57, D.C.Schall 56 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY

FRESHMEN
Class of 1958
R.B.Huttig, L.T.Klauder, W.H. Young, J.S.Cox, P.W.Tifft, J.E. Kaiser, M.N.Ambler, D.L.Pickard (Capt.), P.S.Alsop (Cox)

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VARSITY
M.McTighe 57, G.Thomas 57, J.Detjens 56, B.Williams 57, D.Hess 57, H.Robinson 55 (Capt.), S.Dunn 56, L.Strayer 57, R.Haselkorn 56 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
J.Noye 55, J.Carstens 57, R.Edwards 57, A.Hogg 55, B.Strang 57, A.Alexander 55, G.Kunkel 56, D.Robinson 57, T.Evans 55 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1958
N.Chrisman (Stroke), P.Bowman, L.Kunkel, G.Bischof, C.Denny, S. Sudduth, K. Maloy, A. Allen, J.R.Martin (Cox)

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Review of the 1955 Crew Year

For Coach Dutch Schoch the 1955 crew season was an extremely disappointing one, and only a fine performance by the 150-pound boat prevented the season from going down as one of the worst in Princetons history. The varsity boat, though it failed to win any races, showed up strongly in several regattas toward the end of the season. Opening the season against a Navy boat which had won twenty-nine consecutive races, the Tigers found themselves two and one-half lengths behind at the finish. Rowing against Columbia and Penn for the Childs Cup, the varsity managed to edge the Lions, but fell before the powerful Quaker boat. After a third behind Wisconsin and Harvard the Tigers showed signs of improvement in the Eastern Sprint Championships by finishing fifth in a field of twelve. The Carnegie Cup Regatta was a disappointment as the varsity finished last, behind Yale and Cornell. The junior varsity boat, after a strong start, also turned in a losing season. Showing unexpected strength the boat opened its season losing to Navy by less than three feet. Then, after a loss to Penn, the Jayvees turned in a better time than the Varsity as they topped Harvard and M.I.T. for their only victory of the year. The boat concluded its season with a fifth place in the Eastern Sprints and a third, behind Cornell and Yale, in the last race of the season. The 150-pound boat, aiming for a trip to the Henley Royal Regatta in England, opened its season in fine style on Lake Carnegie, as it set a new record over the 1- 15/16 mile course while beating Cornell and M.I.T. Soon afterwards the lightweights won the Wood Hammond Cup for the third straight year with a length and a half victory over Penn. But in the Eastern Sprints the crews Henley hopes were ruined, as they bowed to the same Penn boat which they had beaten less than a month earlier. In the Sprints final heat, en route to the starting line, the wash from a motorboat split the ancient shell making two oars inoperable. Princeton rowed back to the MIT Boathouse and took a JV shell, but could not catch Penn after all that. After this unexpected upset the lightweights returned to form by outdistancing Yale and Harvard on the Housatonic River to retain the Goldthwait Cup.

Freshman Crews
Although they made many strong bids for victory, the 1955 Freshman heavyweight crew proved successful in only one of its outings. Opening the season at home with one such bid, the Tigers, battling all the way, were nosed out in a close duel with Navy, the margin of victory being only four-tenths of a second. Traveling down to Philadelphias Schuylkill River one week later, the team had its only taste of victory as it outstroked the Pennsylvania and Columbia crews by wide margins to take the Childs Cup competition. Rodgers (bow), Maloy (2), Allen (3), Denny (4), Bischof (5), Kunkel (6), Bowman (7), Chrisman (stroke), and Martin (coxswain) comprised the victorious boat. Harvards Charles River proved less favorable to the Bengals as they came in second by one and onequarter lengths to the Cantabs in the annual Compton Cup contest. Moving down to Washington for the E.A.R.C. Championships, the Nassau boat placed third among a field of seven. Harvard again set the pace, this time by a wide margin, Cornell placing second. Battling back at home for the Carnegie Cup, Princeton again found Cornell its better, with Yale taking a third. Closing out the season, the Orange and Black placed a disappointing fifth behind Cornell, Washington, MIT and Navy in the I.R.A. regatta. Over Syracuses Lake Onondaga course, the Tigers were more than sixteen seconds off Cornells pace. The second heavyweight boat fared no better, winning only one of its four meets. Bowing to Penn in the Childs Cup and Cornell in the Carnegie Cup competitions, the Tigers managed to eke out a four-tenths of a second victory over the Kent School at home. The third heavyweight boat managed to win both its meets, downing Penns third boat in the Childs Cup test and the Hun School over the local course. Like the first and second heavyweights, the Freshman 150s could fit only one victory into their schedule. After bowing to Columbia for the first time since 1945, the lightweight shell saw Cornell lead it to the finish line at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania ventured down to Lake Carnegie the following week, only to be soundly crushed by a spirited Princeton shell. In the EARC championships and the Goldthwait Cup struggle, the yearling boat took two seconds to Yale, beating Harvard who finished third both times. 1956 BRIC-A-BRAC

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VARSITY
Childs Cup Compton Cup Navy Trophy
A.Blaydow 58, R.Edwards 57, J.Detjens 56, B.Williams 56, G.Bischof 58, S.Cromwell 56, C.Denny 58, L.Strayer 57, R.Haselkorn 56 (Capt. & Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
D.Robinson 57 (Stroke), R. Edwards 57, H.Denny 58, A.Allen 58, R.Wolf 56, P.Bowman 58, N.Chrisman 58, G.Thomas 57, R.Martin 58 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1959
W.Lewis, G.H.Myers, R.W.Williams, E.A.Lasater, H.G.Stewart, N.H.Donald, B.E.Brown, A.C.Crofton, L.H.Bernheim (Cox)

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After a three-year famine of victories, Coach Dutch Schochs 1956 Varsity Crew bounced back into the national spotlight. The 150-pound Varsity Team made Coach Don Roses inaugural as a Princeton mentor a complete success, as they competed in, and won, the famed Henley Regatta at the seasons end. Three years of building and hard work paid off as Coach Schochs charges opened the season with an impressive victory over the Middies from Annapolis. Also falling to the Tigers on that afternoon were the Admirals, the 1952 Naval Academy team that represented the United States in the Olympics that year. The varsity boat, adding to its national prominence, stroked its way to a victory in the Childs Cup over Penn, the 1955 Eastern Sprint champions, and Columbia. The Tigers, suffering the loss of a man to the inevitable last minute work on the thesis, were brought back to earth with their first defeat of the season at the hands of a strong Yale crew, which finished first, and a Cornell crew, with seven of eight of its 1955 national championship members, who edged the Orange and Black for second place in the Carnegie Cup on the Housatonic. The Eastern Sprint championships saw Princeton, once more back at full strength, squeeze out a last-minute Harvard effort to capture a mediocre fourth place. The crew took up its winning ways with a victory over Harvard, Dartmouth, and MIT in the Compton Cup to cap its most successful season in years. The junior varsity boat joined its varsity mate by edging the Navy JVs in the seasons opener. Unlike the varsity, however, the JVs were unable to overcome an early Quaker lead as they dropped their second race of the year to the Pennsylvania JVs, with third place Yale, but were downed by a strong Cornell boat that took the event. The Orange and Black JVs also took a fourth place in the Easter Sprint tests. A victory in the Compton Cup finished their season. The lightweights opened the season with an easy win over Columbia. It took a sprint finish to down Cornells boat in the Tigers next test. The 150-pound boat whipped Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth in the Goldthwait Cup event with the first of their two record-breaking performances of the season. Coach Roses men reached their regular season highpoint, however, in the lightweight Eastern Sprint trials, where they copped the Joseph Wright Cup, emblematic of national supremacy. A victory over Pennsylvania ended a perfect season, followed by winning the Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.

Review of the 1956 Crew Year

six meets. Opening the season at Annapolis, the Tigers placed second, behind a powerful Naval Academy crew, in a race postponed until the evening because of a broken rudder on the Middiesshell. Eager to better this disappointing showing, the Tigers journeyed to New York the following week, where they outstroked both Pennsylvania and Columbia to capture the Childs Cup for the second consecutive year. This was followed by a victory over Yale and Cornell in the Carnegie Cup competition. Traveling to Washington for the EARC championships, the Orange and Black outdistanced Pennsylvania and Harvard in an elimination heat, but were unable to better Navy and Yale in the finals. Taking ten minutes to make their decision, the judges called Navy the winner (by three inches over Yale), with the Nassau boat placing third. Back at Princeton for their only Lake Carnegie competition, the Tigers lost an early lead and the Compton Cup to Harvard, who took over the first position with a powerful spurt in the last quarter mile. The season closed on a dim note as Princeton placed sixth in a field of ten at the IRA regatta in Syracuse. The second freshman heavyweight boat fared somewhat better, winning two of its three races. In competition at Kent School, the Tigers outstroked Kent and Harvard in separate races. At Derby, Connecticut, the following week, however, the Cubs managed to gain only third place in the Carnegie Cup competition against Cornell and Yale. The season ended as the Nassau shell defeated M.I.T. The Freshman 150-pound Crew showed remarkable ability, and completed the 1956 season undefeated. Opening their season in New York, the 150s outdistanced Columbia by three lengths in a two-mile race. Journeying to Ithaca a week later, the Nassau crew, coxed by Pete Schneider, bettered Cornells lightweight boat. Lake Carnegie was the scene of the Goldthwait Cup, which saw the Orange and Black humble Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. Princeton was also the scene of the EARC 150-pound championships. In the first elimination heat, M.I.T. and Harvard topped Pennsylvania and Cornell to win places in the final race. In the second heat, Princeton placed first, followed by Columbia, Yale, and Dartmouth. Leading from the start, the Tiger crew withstood a late burst by M.I.T. to take the finals, a full boat length ahead of the Engineers, with Harvard coming in third. The lightweights completed their flawless year by defeating Pennsylvania in a race held at Lake Carnegie. The second lightweight boat rowed in only one contest, placing second to Kent School, their hosts for the race.

Freshmen Crew
Despite consistently strong attempts, Princetons 1956 Freshman Heavyweight Crew won only two of its

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Through the combined efforts of Dutch Schochs Varsity Crew and Don Roses phenomenally successful 150-pound Crew, Princeton retained her excellent record 211 in

1956 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITY
HENLEY THAMES CUP CHAMPIONS with JOSEPH WRIGHT CUP at Eastern Sprints
Goldthwait Cup Wood-Hammond Cup
Standing: J. Newcomer 57, B.Satterfield 56 (Capt.), R.Brink 56, A.Fletcher 57, A.Korhammer 56, L.Yerkes 58, R.Huttig 58. J.Kaiser 58 Kneeling: J.Soutter 57, D.Schall 56 (Cox), P.Liebert 57, Coach Don Rose (Soutter and Liebert spares at Henley.)

JUNIOR VARSITY & THIRD VARSITY

JV Standing: J.Soutter 57, D.Williams 57, R.Brink 56, L.Updegrove 58, W.McMillan 57, P.Williamson 57, W.H.Young 58, L.Klauder 58, P.Alsop 58 (Cox) Third Varsity Kneeling: R.McConnell 58, R.Casserley 58, J.R.Martin 58, M.Ambler 58, J.Chambers 57, K.Mayers 58, J.Cox 58, J.Read 57, P.Liebert 57, J.Forbes 58 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1959
Back Row: R.H.Richards, R.T.Manfuso, B.J.C.vanderHoeven, J.D.Helms, M.A.Jones, W.L.Macon, M.J.Kelly, J.W.Butterworth, P.P.Schneider (Cox) Front Row: J.R.Miller, W.A.Volckhausen, D.Iams, J.H.Bingler, F.H.Connor, M.Kimmel (Cox), R.S.Littell, R.N.Harvey, D.M.Swift, S.C.Cleaves

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HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA

THE REGATTA was established at a public meeting in the Town Hall, Henley-on-Thames on March 26th, 1839, when it was resolved: That from the lively interest which has been manifested at the various boat races which have taken place on the Henley Reach during the last few years, and the great influx of visitors on such occasions, this meeting is of the opinion that the establishing of an annual regatta, under judicious and respectable management, would not only be productive of the most beneficial results to the town of Henley, but from its peculiar attractions would also be a source of amusement and gratification to the neighbourhood, and to the public in general. In 1851 His Royal Highness Prince Albert (later H.R.H. The Prince Consort) became the first Royal Patron of the Regatta, since when it has been styled Henley Royal Regatta. The 1839 Regatta was raced on a single afternoon, but the enthusiasm it generated led to a two-day Regatta in 1840. In 1886 racing was extended to three days, and, in 1906, to four. From 1928 onwards, some events became consistently oversubscribed, and Qualifying Races were introduced to reduce entries to appropriate numbers. In December 1985 the Stewards decided that the high quality of some of the entries being excluded in Qualifying Races justified expanding certain events. To accommodate the extra races in the programme, the Regatta was, in 1986, further extended to five days. The Regatta was first held on the afternoon of June 14th, 1839 and has been staged every year thereafter except during the two World Wars. The 1914 Regatta was held one month before the outbreak of the Great War and there was subsequently no competition in 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918. Within 12 days of the signing of the Armistice on November 11th, 1918, a letter appeared in The Field urging the revival of Henley Royal Regatta and a meeting held in The Temple on the Island in January 1919 decided that an interim regatta. to be organised by the Stewards, be held that July. During the Second World War no regatta was held between 1940 and 1944. The war in Europe, having ended in May 1945, it was decided to hold a one-day regatta on Saturday, July 7th. There were only three events, with crews contending for special cups and with the races rowed over a shortened course. In 1946 the full Regatta programme was re-instated, with the prizes being presented by H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth. Hence, in the 160 years since its foundation, there have been eleven occasions when the Regatta proper has not been staged accordingly 1999 marks the celebration of the 150th Regatta. TEMPLE ISLAND. The Temple on the island at the Start of the Regatta Course was designed by James Wyatt for Sambrooke Freeman of Fawley Court in 1771. In 1987 the Stewards purchased a 999-year lease of the Island, the downstream portion of which is retained as a nature reserve and has been extensively planted with young trees to return it to its traditional, heavilywooded appearance. The Temple itself has been fully restored. THE GRAND CHALLENGE CUP dates from 1839, in which year the Stewards resolved that a Silver Cup, value 100 guineas, to be called the Henley Grand Challenge Cup, be rowed for annually by amateur crews in eight-oared boats. At this first Regatta, J. D. Bishop, of the Leander Club, umpired on horseback. The race, which was won by First Trinity, Cambridge, attracted four entries and it is recorded that: The Etonian Club were dressed in white guernseys with pale blue facings, rosette sky blue. Brasenose had blue striped guernseys, blue cap with gold tassel, rosette yellow, purple and crimson. Wadham wore white guernseys with narrow blue stripes, dark blue cap with light blue velvet band, and light blue scarf and Trinity College were attired in blue striped guernseys, rosette French Blue. The Grand Challenge Cup has been competed for annually since 1839 with the exception of the years affected by the two World Wars. While the text of the qualification rules has varied over the years, the Cup has always been open, except in the Olympic Games year of 1908, to all established amateur clubs. The Cup has been won by overseas crews thirty-eight times eleven times by crews from the United States, ten times from Germany, nine from the U.S.S.R., thrice from Belgium, twice from Australia and once each by crews from Switzerland, France and Bulgaria. The base of the Cup was added in 1896 and extended in 1954 and 1986 and records the names of all winning crews since the inception of the Regatta. The Book of Honour was added as an integral part of the trophy in 1954. In 1964, the winning Harvard crew of 1914 presented the Regatta with a new cup, being identical to the now fragile original of 1839; this new cup continues to be used as the trophy. In 1845 a new challenge prize was offered for eight-oared crews which, in the following year, was named THE LADIES CHALLENGE PLATE. Up to the 1966 Regatta, entries for this event were restricted to boat clubs from colleges, schools and certain other academic institutions within the United Kingdom together with Trinity College, Dublin. The rules were then widened to permit entries from any college, school or academic institution throughout the world. In 1985, major changes to the rules for the Ladies and the Thames removed the student requirement for the Ladies, which became an event open to crews from any club which did not consider themselves up to Grand standard; thus it is now the second most senior event for eights at the Regatta.

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PRINCETON 7:28 THAMES ROWING CLUB 7:33

PRINCETON 7:52 LENSBURY ROWING CLUB 8:12

PRINCETON 7:14 ISIS BOAT CLUB 7:17

THAMES CHALLENGE CUP

PRINCETON 7:10 ROYAL AIR FORCE 7:14

RECEIVING THEIR REWARD

J.E. Kaiser 58 (Stroke), D.C.Schall 56 (Cox), R.B.Huttig 58, L.A.Yerkes 58, A.F.Korhammer 56, A.L. Fletcher 57, R.Brink 56, W.W.Satterfield 56, J.R.Newcomer 57 (Bow)

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Henley Royal Regatta (continued)
THE THAMES CHALLENGE CUP was instituted for eightoars in 1868, and attracted entries from home and overseas crews of club, rather than Grand, standard. From 1985 there were a number of rule changes for the Thames, each attempting to ensure that the best club and student crews entered the higher event, the Ladies. After a two year review the Stewards, in December 1995, made fundamental changes to the rules of the Thames and excluded all student crews i.e. No crew of a boat club of any university, college or secondary school ... In addition the event now has a number of other exclusions, both of highly qualified individuals and of certain institutions, with the intention of ensuring that the Thames is an event for genuine club crews. As part of the search to find the right formula for the eights events at the Regatta an additional event, The Henley Prize, was instituted in 1990 for the eights of single colleges, of smaller university boat clubs and of schools unable to enter for the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup by reason of age. This proved to be a very popular event. The Stewards quickly decided that it should become a permanent part of the Regatta programme and provided a trophy, THE TEMPLE CHALLENGE CUP. The Cup, made in 1835 by Charles Fox, has been engraved with a sketch of the Temple. The Straight Course first used in 1924 necessitated the removal of part of Temple Island and of the opposite Berkshire bank. This Course is the same length as the Old and New Courses, is 80 feet wide and runs straight from below the Berkshire side of Temple Island to finish at Poplar Point. A map showing the New and Straight Courses is on view in the Prize Tent. The traditional length of the Course is 1 mile 550 yards (2,112 metres), which was the longest distance of open water that could be obtained in 1839 on the Henley Reach. The distance from the start-line to Remenham Barrier is 2,089 feet, to Fawley 3,435 feet and to the winning post 6,930 feet, which is 1 mile 550 yards. The length of the second part of the Coursefrom Fawley to the winning postremains sixty feet longer than the first partfrom the Start to Fawley. Regatta Programme

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VARSITY
Childs Cup Compton Cup
A.K.Blaydow 58, E.A.lasater 59, G.P.Bischof 58, S.B.Strang 57 (Capt.), C.H.Denny 58, B.D.Williams 57, N.D.Chrisman 58, L.M.Strayer 57, J.R.Martin 58 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
D.Robinson 57 (Stroke), R.Edwards 57, L.Kunkel 58, A.Allen 58, R.Garret 59, P.Bowman 58, R.Williams }59, G.Thomas 57, S.White 59 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1960
E.H.Kirchman, A.s.McDowell, G.M.Lasater, T.Kukic, W.G.Smyth, R.D.Bach, J.H.Ball, B.G.Soden, B.C.Swanson (Cox)

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Review of the 1957 Crew Year

rowing competition. The Varsity Crews first race of the year with Navy proved to be the closest and perhaps the most exciting of the season. Held on a placid Lake Carnegie, it was a giveand-take race all the way. A finishing spurt brought Navy out in front; however, it was so close that the crowd of three thousand on shore were silent until the officials announced a victory for the Middies by one-tenth of a second. Spurred by this near win the crew topped the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia in competition for the Childs Cup, the oldest trophy for oarsmen in the United States. Again at Lake Carnegie, the Tiger Crew, led by stroke Ken Blaydow, produced a terrific one-quarter mile finishing sprint to the delight of twenty-five hundred screaming fans. Almost the same sequence of events occurred the following g week at Cambridge in the race for the Compton Cup. Harvard seemed to have the upper hand in the slight headwinds and choppy water of the Charles River. Another dazzling spurt at the end though, led Princeton to a three-quarters length victory over the Cantabs. At Ithaca in the Carnegie Cup meet the Cornell and Yale shells proved too fast for the Tigers. Although Princeton took the lead several times and was ahead of Yale for the first three-quarters of the run, Cornell turned in a record time for the competition, followed four seconds later by Yale. It seems that the Varsity Crew was destined to take a secondary role for the rest of the season, competing against the top-notch oarsmen of Cornell and Yale. At the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges meet in Princeton, the Tigers finished only third in the first heat of the two-thousand meter race. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association race proved to be a repeat performance on Lake Onondagas choppy waters with Princeton taking fourth place to Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Stanford. The various lightweight competition proved no problem for the Princeton 150-pound Crew. At their first meet the Henley Champions pulled abreast of Cornell and finished a full length ahead in a time six-tenths of a second short of the record for lightweights on Lake Carnegie. The following contest with Navy for the Wood-Hammond Trophy on the Schuylkill was not so one-sided. The Orange and Black, under stroke Duke Butterworth, finished only four feet ahead of the Middies, after coming from three-quarters of a length behind in the last quarter mile. In the Big Three race for the Goldthwait Cup at Cambridge it was any crews win. Yale took an early lead, but Princeton and Harvard soon surged ahead. Although falling behind in the stretch, Princeton was ahead of a gaining Harvard shell by one-tenth of a second at the finish. Defeating eight crews on the Severn at Annapolis finished the season for the 150s. Under perfect rowing conditions Princeton won the Joseph Wright Cup in the Eastern Rowing Colleges competition for the second consecutive time. The post-season competition was climaxed by the win of the Thames Challenge Cup at the Royal Henley Regatta, the Tigers second consecutive victory of this rowing classic. Captained by James Newcomer, the lightweights scored in the final heat over the National Provincial Bank Rowing Club of England, thus making the fourth Princeton win in a decade. Freshman Crew The 1957 Freshman Heavyweight Crew, the last to be coached by Pete Gardner, was unable to meld into a wellperforming unit. Weight and strength were not lacking, as the frosh were the largest ever, but smoothness and split-second timing were missing. In the first race at Lake Carnegie, a powerful Navy Plebe boat left the frosh two lengths behind. The Navy boat ended the season by capturing first place in the E.R.A. regatta. The next race saw a revamped lineup turn in the seasons best performance, a first place in a triangular meet with Pennsylvania and Columbia. Not so successful in the next race, the crew finished second to Harvard in the five-school Compton Cup meet. The annual Carnegie Cup race was even more disappointing as the oarsmen finished fourth out of four teams on a choppy Lake Ithaca. The winner of this race was Yale, while Cornell was a close second. To complete the season, the heavies placed tenth and eighth respectively in the E.A.R.C. and I.R.A. meets. The I.R.A. meet was especially disappointing, since the crew had worked hard for ten days after school had ended in preparation for the race at Syracuse. The Freshman 150-pound Crew also fought their way through a mediocre season. Like their heavier counterparts, the frosh were unable to find a combination of oarsmen that could work smoothly together, and at times so many shifts were employed by Coach Don Rose that the practice sessions turned into games of musical chairs. The last day of the season, mastermind Rose still was changing men. The first race of the season saw Princeton muff an early lead to lose by of a length to Cornell. Penn and Columbia finished far behind the two leaders. The following week the frosh lightweights turned in their best performance as they defeated Penn, once again by two lengths. This time the race took place on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. At Cambridge on the Charles River, the Princeton boat fell behind at the start, and was never able to catch up to the fast-moving crews from Harvard and Yale. To finish the season, the frosh traveled to Annapolis where they finished a disappointing seventh out of nine teams in the Sprint Championships. The winning crew was Navy. 1958 BRIC-A-BRAC

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Unable to work on Lake Carnegie for almost the whole month of March, both heavyweight crews had to build up their pre-season mileage on dry land. After the ice cleared from the 217 lake the crews were able to average seventeen miles a day during the spring recess. Although nine men had been lost from the

1957 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITY
UNDEFEATED Goldthwait Cup Wood-Hammond Cup Joseph Wright Cup Henley Thames Cup
M.J.Kelly 59, A.L.Fletcher 57, W.McMillan 57, P.S.Liebert 57, B.J.C.vanderHoeven 59, W.L.Macon 59, J.R.Newcomer 57, J.W.Butterworth 59, P.S.Alsop 58 (Cox), Rose (Coach)

HEAVYWEIGHT SENIORS
Dutch Schoch , J.P.Carstens, C.D.Robinson, G.C.Thomas, S.B. Strang (Captain), L.M.Strayer, B.D.Williams, R.H.Edwards, Nelson Cox (Rigger)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1960
O.B.Marx, R.J.Chainski, A.M.Levine, H.G.Stewart, R.M.Fox, M.L.Holmes, H.D.Mirick, J.R.Gregory, C.R.Engle (Cox)

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GORDON SIKES MEDAL

THE GORDON G. SIKES MEDAL
Established in 1958 in honor of Gordon G. Sikes 16, Founder and First Coach of Princeton Lightweight Rowing, by Members of the 1924, 1925 and 1926 Lightweight Varsity Crews.
Awarded annually to that senior member on the Lightweight Crew who, in the judgment of the members of all varsity lightweight crews which have raced, has throughout the year shown the best sportsmanship and done the most for rowing.
1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Charles Moran III 58 Michael J. Kelly 59 Oscar B. Marx III 60 Alan MacKenzie 61 Douglas H. Latimer 62 Frederick C. Brown 63 James B. Street 64 Jeffrey R. Fisher 65 Robert B. McGinley 66 Richard O. Prentke 67 John P. Duran 68 James S. Deupree 69 John S. Slete 70 Edwin C. Yeary 71 John J. Griffin 72 Arthur C. Oller 73 William H. Walton 74 W. AIston Hayne 75 Wendell B. Colson 76 David P. King 77 Robert D. Wilson 78 Jacob H. Gregory 79 Gregory W. Faris80 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 William B. Doyle, Jr. 81 Robert B. VanCleve 82 John S. Andrews 83 Mark C. Califano 84 Andrew L. Card 85 Robert C. Hedlund III 86 Andrew S. Ballard 87 Michael K. Atalay 88 Robert Q. Scacheri 89 Dax C. Swanson 90 Karl L.Happe91 Stephen M. Hope 92 Robert L. Morse, Jr. 93 Graham C. Weaver 94 Alexander R. Horner 95 Gregory C. Hughes 96 Kevin M. Cotter 96 John A. Barticuz 97 Robert H. Milam 98 Jonathan L. Schwartz 99 Joseph DiNorcia 00

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VARSITY
Navy Trophy
Front Row: S.White, J.Callery 60, R.Bach 60, G.Lasater 60, P.Bowman 58, J.Ball 60, B.Bradley 58, K.Maloy 58, B.Soden 60 Middle Row: B.Swanson 60, W.Lewis 59, A.Crofton 59, L.Kunkel 58, A.McDowell 60, R.Williams 59, C.Brookfield 58, N.Chrisman 58, (Capt.) B.Crane 58 Top Row: R.Martin 58, R.Lewis 60, J.Hirschy 60, K.Blaydow 58, A.Allen 58, C.Denny 58, E.Lasater 59, R.Garrett 59, G.Bischof 58, M.Pohlman 59, H.Slade 59, B.Brown 59, T.Kukic

JUNIOR VARSITY
W.Lewis 59 (Stroke), R.Bach 60, L.Kunkel 58, R.Lewis 60, R.Garrett 59, B.Crane 58, J.Ball 60, B.Soden 60, B.Swanson 60 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1961
Front Row: A.D.Wiles, R.Shipman, C.Bredenberg, Y.Wong, F.Huey, J.Randall Middle Row: D.Greer, D.Duval, G.Gray, T.Maloney, R.Barrowclough, C.Conway, D.Anthony, R.Palmer, W.Simmers, F.Lewis, J.Quilty Top Row: J.Kunkemueller, A.Howard, J.Bennett, S.McWhinnie, A.Pike, K.Moyle, F.Alexander, D.Henley

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The spring of 1958 was a disappointing one for the Varsity Heavyweights despite Coach Dutch Schochs prediction of the finest crew in twenty years. In a banner season for eastern crews, the Tigers were unable to rise above mediocrity. In their first test of the season at Annapolis, the Varsity lived up to Coach Schochs expectations as they crossed the finish line a length and a half ahead of a favored Navy crew. Trailing until the last quarter, the Tiger crew moved up steadily and passed a fading Navy eight for the eleventh Princeton victory of the annual contest begun in 1913. A week later on the Schuylkill at Philadelphia, the Princeton crew battled a strong Pennsylvania shell down to the line, finally losing by a length as a Princeton oarsman caught a crab in the final 200 yards. Columbia finished third, three lengths behind Princeton. On Lake Carnegie the following Saturday, rain and records both fell as the Harvard crews swept all five races in the annual battle for the Compton Cup. An unproven Crimson varsity shell passed the fast-stroking Princeton eight at the mile-to-go mark to finish two lengths ahead of Princeton and to set a new course record of 8:40.6. The next week, under nearly ideal conditions, a victorious Yale crew finished one-half length ahead of a challenging Cornell shell and trimmed five seconds off the Crimson record time of a week earlier, turning in a time of 8:35.8 for the course. Princeton, although leading at the half-mile mark, fell behind and was unable to regain lost ground. The next week Princeton was host for the EARC Championships. Pennsylvania shells compiled a total of twenty-one points to win the Rowe Cup, while Yales varsity crew stroked to the finish of its race in 5:54.4 to set a new Lake Carnegie record and to win the varsity sprint championship. The Tiger heavies were edged out by Syracuse in their morning heat but copped a third place in the afternoon consolation event. Lake Onondaga at Syracuse was the scene of the annual IRA Regatta climaxing the 1958 heavyweight rowing season. Cornell dominated the ten participating colleges, winning every race to sweep the days events. Princeton, battling Navy and California over the grueling three-mile course, took fourth place in a very close finish. The varsity lightweights fared little better than the heavyweights this season. In their first contest against Cornell and Columbia on the Harlem, a surprisingly strong Cornell eight ended a Princeton twenty-one race winning streak including two Henley Championships. Maintaining a threatening position throughout the race, the Tiger varsity made their bid at the one-half mile-to-go mark but Cornell held their slim lead to win. A week later on Lake Carnegie the varsity regained its winning form defeating Pennsylvania and setting a course record of 6:29.4 for the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles. Understroking Pennsylvania for nearly the entire race, the Princeton crew took the lead at the three-quarter mile mark and opened water with one mile left. On the Housatonic at New Haven the following week, the Harvard lightweights came to the front winning all five contests. In the varsity race Princeton finished third to the Crimson eight, only a deck-length behind second-place Yale. Climaxing the lightweight season on the Charles River at Cambridge the following Saturday, the host crew dominated the scene as the Crimson varsity finished their season undefeated, squeezing past Cornell in the final seconds of the race to win by one-tenth of a second. Princeton placed third.

Freshman Crew
A heavy schedule was in part responsible for the poor 4 and 14 record established by Coach Jeff Carstens 1958 Freshman Heavyweights. Opening the rowing season at Annapolis, against a highly-favored Navy crew, the Princeton Freshman dropped behind early in the race and finished a full three lengths behind the sprinting Navy shell. The result of the following weeks regatta at Philadelphia against Pennsylvania and Columbia showed little improvement. Penn held the lead for the entire race while Princeton faded into last place in the final quarter-mile. Host to Harvard, Rutgers, and MIT for the annual Compton Cup Regatta, the Princeton Freshmen turned in what was probably their best performance of the season. After leading in the early part of the race, the Princeton boat was overtaken by Harvard, but the Tigers maintained a hold on second place to cross the finish line ahead of Rutgers and MIT. The following Saturday, the Freshmen finished third behind Cornell and Yale in the annual Carnegie Cup race at Princeton. The 1958 Freshman 150lb. Crew had a disappointing season, for they failed to win one race. However, by the end of the season Coach Al Poveys eight showed substantial improvement over their first encounter. In their first race the Tiger Crew, stroked by Lee Greenwood, met Cornell and Columbia on New Yorks Harlem River. Cornell finished first by two lengths, leading during the entire race, while Columbia with a strong sprint came on to pass Princeton and win second place by a deck length. Lake Carnegie was the scene of the following weeks Wood-Hammond Cup race against Pennsylvania. Penn took an early lead and a late Princeton drive was not enough to overcome the Quakers. Yale and Harvard were the crews opponents in the Goldthwait Cup races held at Yale. The strong Harvard boat won over Princeton by a length. The Tigers, however, had the satisfaction of taking second place by beating Yale by two lengths. The season closed with the E.A.R.C. sprint championships held on the Charles River in Cambridge. In the morning heat Princeton finished third behind Cornell and Dartmouth, defeating M.I.T. by a length. The afternoon race saw Princeton get a bad start on the windy Charles, but they fought back to place fifth ahead of Yale and Pennsylvania. Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Columbia finished ahead of Princeton in that order.

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1958 CREWS
LIGHTWEIGHT VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup
T.H.Turnbull 58, W.A.Porteous 59, C.Moran 58, L.A.Yerkes 58, R.B.Huttig 58, W.L.Macon 59, M.J.Kelly 59, J.W.Butterworth 59, P.S.Alsop 58 (Cox)

HEAVYWEIGHT FRESHMEN
Class of 1961
J.E.Bjorkholm, S.T.McWhinnie, J.C.Bennett, F.L.Alexander, A.B.Howard, R.H.Palmer, G.E.Gray, W.M.Simmers, C.E.Bredenberg (Cox)

LIGHTWEIGHT FRESHMEN
Class of 1961
A.W.Conrad, D.H.Whiteley, L.S.Greenwood, S.S.Rea, J.R.Tombaugh, Stevens, A.macKenzie, A.H.Whitehead, V.C.Bachman (Cox)

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PRINCETON AND U.S. NAVY/MARINES COMPETE IN 1960 OLYMPIC TRYOUTS

FOUR WITHOUT COX

B.Williams 57 (1st Lt.USMC), N.Chrisman 58 (LTJG USN), H.Denny 58 (LTJG USN), D.Robinson 57 (1st Lt. USMC)

PRINCETON/NAVY ENTRY ON THE WATER

N.Chrisman 58 (LTJG), H. Denny 58 (LTJG), D.Robinson 57 (1st Lt. USMC), B.Williams 57 (1st Lt. USMC)

VARSITY
K.Blaydow 58 (Stroke), H.Slade 59, N.Chrisman 58 (Capt.), E.Lasater 59, C.Denny 58, G.Bischof 58, M.Pohlman 59, A.Allen 58, R.Martin 58 (Cox)

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FALL LINEUP
W.Lewis 59, P.B.Bowman 58, C.H.Denny 58, G.P.Bischof 58, R.Garrett 59, E.A.Lasater 59, N.D.Chrisman 58 (Capt.), N.Donald 59, C.S.White 59 (Cox)

COACH PETER W. SPARHAWK

Mens Crews 1958 - 80

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By Irving T. Marsh, New York Herald Tribune There are all sorts of problems connected with the staging of a rowing regatta, particularly one of the magnitude of the Eastern sprints here today, but this year your Princeton hosts had an additional problem that may never have existed anywhere before. They had to mow Lake Carnegie. That sounds a little funny, but its not meant to be. For last summer there came to the lake an upsurge of a weed called watermilfoil. It was not limited to Lake Carnegie. It happened all over New Jersey, possibly due to climatic changes. At any rate, our watermilfoil villain threatened to make rowing practically impossible on Carnegie Imagine one of those sleek shells caught, like Moses cradle-basket, in the bulrushes. They began in April. From a home-built catamaran-a platform on two pontoonsthey spread a chemical called 24D over the rowing course, later the channel between the boathouse and the starting line, and went up and down the lake sowing seeds of destruction to watermilfoil. It took weeks of sowing, too. During the process five tons of 24D were dropped into the lake. The chemical was dropped by impregnating a liquid spray into little clay pellets, the size of a pill. Pellets were used so they could sink to the bottom and attack upward. Literally millions of these pellets cast into the lake. They went up and down almost three times before they were satisfied. By the end of last week, they thought they had the villain confounded. But theres another villain that the keepers of Lake Carnegie will have to face in the next few years. Thats silt. This is a tremendous problem. When Rusty Callow coached at Penn and worked out his crews on the then silty Schuylkill, he called this the only river that raised dust. Carnegie, dredged a little more than 20 years ago, will have to have more of the same treatment a few years hence. Those are some of the extraordinary problems that beset the director of a rowing regatta. There are the usual problems, too, that you may not even be aware of. Like the care and feeding of the crews, the storage of shells, the setting up of rigid practice schedules to prevent jams, etc. These problems are tremendous for a regatta as big as this one today. For example, there will be close to 450 oarsmen, coaches, managers, trainers, etc. who will have taken part, in one way or another, in this regatta. Most of them arrived Friday afternoon or evening. The Princeton hosts must feed them and house them for at least one night. The crews, etc. are housed in Dillon Gymnasium (the freshmen) and at various clubs on the campus. They are given three meals, at the Osborn Club and at the Commons in shifts. There are sittings of 110 every half hour. During the course of the week end, 1,200 steaks, mountains of potatoes, whole gardens of vegetables, magnums of milk, among other things, will have been consumed. The Eastern sprint championships go into their 14th year today. Six of those times they have been staged here on Carnegie. So by this time, Fairman and the rowing staff as well of the dispensers of food and lodging have had considerable experience at it. Each year, after the event, Fairman writes to the coaches and athletic directors asking for suggestions as to how it can be improved. He reports that very, very few have been forthcoming, indicating that the boys are satisfied. But he does remember one such suggestion. The coach of one of the visiting teams asked couldnt his boys be served thirds of steak or roast beef if they wanted it, instead of merely seconds. 1959 EARC Program

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VARSITY
J.Bjorkholm 61 (Stroke), B.Bach 60, J.Ball 60, E.Lasater 59, R.Garrett 59, H.Slade 59, J.Bennett 61, D.Henley 61, B.Swanson 60 (Cox)

SENIORS
Coach Dutch Schoch, Trainer Bobo Holmes, M. Pohlman, R.Garrett, E.Lasater (Capt.), H.Slade, R.N.Cox, Manager Bob Zeller, Recumbant: W.Lewis, R.Williams

VARSITY ROWING SQUAD

Back Row: D.Henley, M.Pohlman, R.Bach, J.Bennett, E.Lasater (Capt.), G.Lasater, H.Slade, J.Bjorkholm, B.Swanson Second Row: T.Patrick, B.Soden, J.Ball, R.Lewis, R.Garrett, F.Alexander, R.Williams, A.McDowell, W.Lewis, C.Bredenberg, T.Maloney Front Row: J.Callery, J.Kunkemueller, R.Palmer, S.McWhinnie, A.Howard, J.Gregory, G.Gray, E.Lewis, C.Conway

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Braving icy winter blasts, Princetons heavyweight and lightweight oarsmen gathered at the boathouse early in February to begin their pre-season conditioning. Rowing through spring vacation, the heavies had several hundred miles of travel under their belts when the Navy arrived to challenge them. The day was cold and dismal-unfortunate indication of the season to follow. Despite a fine finishing sprint, the Tigers were unable to close the gap Navy had opened up during the body of the race and crossed the finish line right on the Middies rudder. The lightweights season began the following week on a high note as they stroked to a half length victory over Cornell. Their heavy classmates, however, were outclassed by the smoothly powered Penn varsity, but in turn easily rowed away from host Columbia over a choppy two mile course on the Harlem River. The two teams headed in opposite directions a week later. The 150s took on Penn, Yale, and Columbia in Philadelphia to capture the Wood-Hammond Cup. Although Yale had the Tigers by a decklength, the Elis were entered in the regatta as guests and so were ineligible for the trophy. Cambridge was the destination of the heavy crew, scheduled to go to the line in a five boat race for the Compton Cup. In the light of later events, Princetons second to the recordbreaking Cantabs was no disgracethis was the boat which went on to beat powerful Yale and win the championship at Henley in July. When a week of juggled lineups had failed to show a superior lightweight varsity boat, Coach Povey ran a race between his evenly matched first two boats. His sophomore and junior J.V. team was the victor and managed to beat Yale, but was outclocked by Harvards Henley champions on Lake Carnegie over the weekend. Princetons heavyweights were handled roughly by both Yale and Cornell, finishing last in the three boat battle for the Carnegie Cup at Derby, Connecticut. The weekend of May sixteenth found Princeton playing host to more than three hundred oarsmen from fourteen schools who had come to compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprint Championships on Lake Carnegie. In both the morning and afternoon heats Harvard proved the big winner. Their varsity beat Syracuse by a fraction of a second to cop the championship, and the team went home with the Rowe Cup, having compiled the greatest number of team points. Princetons frosh and jayvees both won their consolation heats, placing Princeton seventh in team competition. At Cambridge, in the lightweight sprint championship, the Tigers were unable to move with their usual precision because of the rough water and finished third, behind Harvard and Dartmouth. The lightweight season was over, but the climax for the heavies lay aheadthe Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta on Lake Onondaga in Syracuse, New York. They practiced all during exams and left for Syracuse the following week. Seven days later it was June twentieth-race-day, and after nineteen long minutes the season was over. The University of Wisconsin had outrowed favored Syracuse, and Princeton trailed in ninth place. Freshmen Crew Heavy competition from schools in the Eastern area resulted in a losing season for the Princeton Freshman crew during Pete Sparhawks first year as Tiger coach. The frosh rowers made their strength felt early by winning their first race in three years. Competing on Lake Carnegie against Navy, they swept to a length-and-a-half victory over the plebes and followed this up by winning the Childs Cup Regatta by four lengths over Penn and Columbia. Both Princeton and Harvard were undefeated when they met for the Compton Cup race at Cambridge on May 2. The Tiger cubs were overcome by the heavier Crimson Rowers, who led to win by a length. At the Carnegie Cup Regatta the tank-practiced Cornell team captured first position over second place Princeton and third place Yale. As host for the EARC Regatta, the Princeton team, eliminated from the finals in the morning race, went on to come from behind and take the consolation race over Yale, Dartmouth and MIT. To conclude the season, the Princeton Freshmen placed seventh in the IRA Regatta at Syracuse. Cornell won the finals over Washington. The Freshman 150-pound crew rowed their way to a commendable record against strong opposition during the 1959 season. Ably coached by Al Povey the Tigers started poorly as they lost a duel meet to a fast Cornell boat at Ithaca by less than half a length. Smarting from their defeat the lightweights turned around and outran Columbia (by four lengths), Yale, and Penn in that order at Philadelphia the following weekend. Returning home the 150-pounds played bad hosts as, in ideal conditions, they outstroked the highly touted Harvard and Yale crews to win the Goldthwait Cup by 1 lengths in what Coach Povey thought might have been a Freshman record for Lake Carnegie. Intensified practice during the next few weeks came to no avail, however, as the Crimson avenged their earlier defeat by outrunning the Princeton nine with Columbia and Yale third and fourth in the first heat of the EARC Regatta and then again outstroking the Orange and Black (Columbia, Dartmouth, MIT, and Cornell trailing) to win the finals and the Eastern Championships. The frosh finished the year with a record of two first and two second places. 1960 BRIC-A-BRAC

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JUNIOR VARSITY
W.Lewis 59 (Stroke), F.Alexander 61, J.Kunkemueller 61, R.Lewis 60, R.Garrett 59, R.Palmer 61, M.Pohlman 59, B.Soden 60, C.Bredenberg 61 (Cox)

DUTCH SCHOCH WITH CAPTAIN EDWARD A. LASATER 59

FRESHMEN
Class of 1962
R.D.LeCount, M.M.Lewis, C.V.Raiser, L.T.Darnell, J.D.Glidden, A.D.Hall, C.M.Swift, B.H.Thurber, R.H.Edson (Cox)

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SHELL CHRISTENINGS 3
ROSENBAUM LEGACY

CHRISTENING THE JOHN W. PITNEY 39 (Francis F. Pete Rosenbaum 48 Coxswain)

CHRISTENING THE FRANCIS F. ROSENBAUM 20 F.F.Pete Rosenbaum, Jr. 48 does the honors

CHRISTENING THE FRANCIS F. ROSENBAUM, JR. 48 Son Michael Rosenbaum 81 repeats the honors

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VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup
C.Campaigne 61, C.M.Smith 59, R.F.Tremaine 61, A.MacKenzie 61, W.W.Dyer 61, B.P.Roberts 60, O.B.Marx 60, L.S.Greenwood 61, D.B.Hinchman 61, F.L.Patton 61 (Cox)

REUNION AT HENLEY
Bill Macon 59 (left), Bernie van der Hoeven 59 (right), celebrate the 40th anniversary of their triumph in the Thames Challenge cup in 1957. William Elfers 41 (center) attends Henley virtually every year.

FRESHMEN
Class of 1962
W.P.Wreden, W.F.Myers, J.P.Butler, S.L.Harris, B.S.Cutler, E.H.Gaunt, E.J.Silman, W.C.MacLean (Cox)

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SHELL CHRISTENINGS 4
RECENT DEDICATIONS
CHRISTENING OF DR. PETER S. LIEBERT 57 & THE WILLIAM BOWEN April 24, 1982

CHRISTENING THE WILLIAM BOWEN 58

CHRISTENING THE PETER S. LIEBERT 57

CHRISTENING THE JOSEPHINE W. SIMPSON First New Shell Purchased for the Womens Crews

CHRISTENING THE FIN MEISLAHN 64

Given by the Lightweights he coached 1966-69

CHRISTENING THE MONTY AND VIC RAISER

In memory of C. Victor Raiser 62 and R. Montgomery Raiser 92

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VARSITY
R.D.LeCount 62 (Stroke), R.D. Bach 60 (Capt.), J.R.F.Kunkemueller 61, A.D.Hall 62, B.L.Sprague 60, F.L.Alexander 61, G.G.Rutherfurd 62, B.G.Soden 60, B.C.Swanson 60 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
J.E.Bjorkholm 61 (Stroke), J.H.Clymer 62, C.B.Stephenson 62, D.R.Henley 61, C.C.Beatty 60, R.D.Lewis 60, P.S.Schroeder 62, H.B.Battin 62, R.H.Edson 62 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1963
D.G.OKeiffe, D.B.Atkinson, D.H.Hooker, R.D.Beck, P.Frelinghuysen, J.E.Pugh, W.T.Mann, D.Sexton, D.ODay (Cox)

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previous year, Coach Dutch Schoch was optimistic as the team prepared for their first race with Navy. Both varsity crews traveled to Annapolis to take on the Middies. The 150 lb. boat nosed out a last ditch Navy attempt to come from behind and won the race. The lack of experience of the heavies, who finished a length behind their high-stroking opponents was evident. The following weekend the lights traveled to New York where they met Columbia and Penn on the Hudson River. After all the shells were swamped by a passing Coast Guard vessel, the crews once again lined up for the start. With a strong wind Princeton led the field down to the line, taking an easy victory. The following week, however, Al Poveys 150 pounders lost to a very fast Cornell crew by only .6 of a second. In the Childs Cup Race, the Penn heavyweights rowed away with the trophy for the third straight year. Columbia came in a poor third, six lengths behind runnerup Princeton. In the Wood-Hammond Cup Regatta the lightweights faced the toprated Harvard eight. Taking advantage of a brisk tail-wind blowing down Lake Carnegie, the Cantabs not only beat the Tigers but set a new record for the Henley distance. Penn trailed behind the pacesetters for the entire race. One week later the 15th Annual Eastern Sprint Championships were held at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. Both the varsity lightweight and heavyweight crews placed fifth in the finals after taking their respective qualifying heats. In the lightweight division Harvard made a clean sweep, winning both the varsity and freshman events. In an upset Cornell edged out Harvard, winner of last years Henley regatta, by five seconds. In the 150 pounders last race of the season, the Tigers faced Yale and Harvard for the Goldthwait Cup. The race, held on the Charles River, was a Harvard victory from the very outset with Princeton second. The only consolation for the Orange and Black was the JVs defeat of the previously undefeated Harvard JVs. The same day, in Ithaca, the heavyweights faced a Cornell crew which had upset Harvard in the Sprint Championships. Despite the challenge made by Princeton in the final quarter-mile, Cornell remained a boats length ahead to take the race. After the end of the school year the heavies traveled to Syracuse for the I.R.A. Regatta on Lake Onondaga. The representatives from the West Coast swept the race. California took first place and Washington, second. Princeton made a weak showing coming in tenth. After a month of extensive practice the heavyweights returned to Lake Onondaga on the seventh of July to enter the Olympic trials. The eight man shell, after a poor showing against Syracuse in a practice run, decided to split into two four-man shells, one with cox and one without. In the quarter-finals the four-man with cox placed second to Washington, and the fourman without cox placed first in its qualifying heat. Both shells went on to the semifinals where the shell without cox came in second to Lake Washington, beating Detroit. The finals for four-man without cox, resulted in a Princeton third place behind Washington and Navy. schedule on April 23 against Navy, the Tigers fell victim to a strong Middie eight. With an edge in early-season conditioning, the home crew was never threatened as they breezed to victory on the Severn. One week later, competing for the Childs Cup, the Nassau frosh placed second to Penn, who rowed to a comfortable length and a half win. The yearling Bengals stood off a late bid by last place Columbia to squeak past the Lions by a third of a length. On May 7, the freshman heavies trailed Harvard and M.I.T. while defeating Dartmouth in the Compton Cup race on the Charles. The E.A.R.C. competition on May 14 once again proved the strength of Navy, as they came from behind to defeat Cornell in the final 150 yards of the mile and three-quarter event. The Tigers finished a disappointing last in the six-boat event. Again, at Ithaca, Coach Pete Sparhawks oarsmen trailed Cornell and Yale for the Carnegie Cup as they finished three and a quarter lengths behind a potent Big Red eight and a length behind the Elis. Victory again evaded their frosh heavies in the I.R.A. regatta on Lake Onondaga where Navy romped to an easy win. The Tigers did, however, manage a respectable fifth place in the Syracuse event. Al Poveys freshman lightweights enjoyed a successful year as they garnered two victories in three tries in dual competition and took a first and two seconds in their multi-team contests. In their season debut against Columbia the frosh stroked to an easy victory. Traveling to Annapolis on April 23, the freshman eight were the victim of pre-race accident. Their shell split and sank after striking a bridge piling. The dampened Tigers had to be fished from the icy Severn. Later in the afternoon, rowing in a borrowed shell, they finished a scant deck length behind the Middies in a breath-taking finish. Returning to Lake Carnegie, Princeton met the Cornell frosh crew on the mile and five-sixteenths course. Standing off a fierce sprint by the Big Red oarsmen, the Tiger frosh won by a narrow margin. Gaining strength in mid-season, the frosh 150s next breezed by Penn and Harvard by five seconds. This was their best performance of the season as they lowered their time in the Cornell race by more than five seconds. After this thrilling climax to the season, the frosh were a slight disappointment in their two remaining events. In the E.A.R.C. finals, the Tiger cubs finished behind a much-improved Harvard crew. Again in their final tilt, Princeton trailed the Crimson, this time in the Goldthwait Cup race on the Charles. Still, the frosh will undoubtedly strengthen the varsity lightweights next season.

1961 BRIC-A-BRAC

Freshman Crew
The Princeton freshman heavyweight crew gained experience but had little success in the 1960 season. Opening their

The season opened for the Varsity heavyweights with the Princeton-Navy Cup competition on April 22nd. Navy won the 1 mile race on Lake Carnegie by outdistancing Princeton by nearly two lengths. The two boats were neck-and-neck until the three-quarter mark when the Princeton boat fell one length behind. The following week the Tigers raced for the Childs

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VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup
D.B.Hinchman 61, B.H.Thurber 62, O.B.Marx 60, Roberts, A.MacKenzie 61, W.W.Dyer 61, B.S.Cutler 62, C.Campaigne 61, D.B.Shafto 60 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1963
O.C.Smith, W.N.Lucas, L.S.Allison, S.W.Perry, E.S.Kirkpatrick, W.B.Burruss, F.G.Brown, P.G.Veeder, W.M.Robinson

HEAVYWEIGHT CAPT. ROBERT D. BACH 60 WITH COACH DUTCH SCHOCH

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LOGG CUP
THE CHUCK LOGG ROWING TROPHY Given by the Oarsmen of the Class of 1960
in recognition of outstanding service to Rutgers Crew by

Charles P. Logg, Varsity Coach 1937-1958

Won regularly by Princeton except the year 1989

Oar Trophy Created and Awarded During a Period When the Cup could not be located

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VARSITY
J.E.Bjorkholm 61 (Stroke), A.Hall 62, J.Kunkemueller 61, F.Alexander 61, P.Carlston 62, P.Schroeder 62, G.Rutherfurd 62, D.Henley 61, D.ODay 63 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
J.P.Williams 63 (Stroke), A.A.Jones 63, P.Frelinghuysen 63, L.T.Darnell 62, D.G. OKieffe 63, D.Sexton 63, C.M.Swift 62, R.M.Olmsted 63, R.L.Burton 62 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1964
H.L.Bush, F.Meislahn, King, S.P.Dicke, P.J. Bjorkholm, R.B.Calhoun, Shenk, P.E.Hubbard, E.P.DuPont (Cox)

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Cup, the oldest cup in intercollegiate racing. Rowing in a constant rain and a brisk quartering wind of fifteen to twenty miles per hour, the Tigers finished a close second to Pennsylvania with Columbia trailing for third. By the three-quarter mark Penn had established a half-length lead, but Princeton began coming up fast. However, the Penn crew responded with its own spurt to cross the finish line holding a one-third length margin over the Tigers. The next event of the season was the Compton Cup competition on the Charles River. Racing in a strong headwind the Tigers faded from the second position to finish third with Harvard taking the honors. A week later the team met with Cornell and Yale in the race for the Carnegie Cup. Cornell finished first with Princeton second. At the start Princeton moved to a half-length advantage over Cornell, but then lowered its beat and the Big Red moved ahead to finish by a threelength margin. In the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Regatta, Princeton finished a poor fifth in the second heat. The Varsity heavies concluded their season with participation in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association competition. At the start Princeton and Syracuse pulled in front, each rowing thirty-eight strokes per minute, with California and Cornell each in the low thirties following. Princeton held a half-length advantage after the quarter-mile. However, by the three-quarter mark, the California Golden Bears moved to the lead with Cornell a close second. At the finish California was first with Princeton trailing in tenth place out of the thirteen contenders. The long, dismal winter may be construed as a foreboding of the unfortunate season had by the Orange and Black lightweight varsity oarsmen. In compiling its 1-5 meet record, the eight took solace in retaining the coveted Wood-Hammond Cup for the ninth straight year over rival Pennsylvania. The opening regatta with Navy and Columbia was on Lake Carnegie with all three shells battling a strong crosswind. Navy took a commanding lead at the three-quarter mark and won handily while Columbia withstood a late Tiger sprint and took second place by a quarter-length. Again on Lake Carnegie a week later, the Tigers copped their only win of the season. Utilizing a high stroke at the finish and a strong tailwind, the Tigers outdistanced the Detroit Boat Club by one length and St. Josephs by two. On April 29 the Tigers matched skills with Cornell at Ithaca, where thirty mile per hour winds and choppy water necessitated the running of all but the last halfmile of the contest in a narrow Lake Cayuga inlet. After

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trailing by only a half-length going into open water, the Tiger crew lost their steadiness in the rough water and bogged down, while their opponents moved on to a two and one-half length victory. Without the services of injured Captain Alan MacKenzie, the Tigers finished one-half length behind a strong Harvard eight in the Wood-Hammond Cup Regatta at Philadelphia despite beating Pennsylvania by three lengths to retain the Cup itself. At the sixteenth annual Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Championship competition on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, the Tigers faced Harvard, Cornell, and Penn in the morning heat and qualified by placing second only two seats behind Cornell. It was a different story in the finals as the Tigers finished sixth, eight seconds behind victorious Harvard. Perhaps the closest contest of the season was the last one: the feature event of a regatta on the Housatonic River at New Haven with the Goldthwait Cup as the prize. The Tigers led until the final quarter-mile but fell before the sprinting of the Elis and the Cantabs and finished six seats behind Harvard and two behind Yale.

Freshman Crew
The Freshman heavyweight crew began its season in a blaze of glory. In their first encounter of the spring, they easily defeated a highly touted group of Navy Plebes. Next they journeyed to Pennsylvania for a triangular meet including both Columbia and a strong Penn team. In a hard fought battle, the Princeton crew was overcome in the last seconds, losing by half a length. The rapidly improving frosh traveled to Boston where they met Dartmouth, M.I.T., and the host team, Harvard, in rough water on a cold day. The only serious opponent, Harvard, was thrown off its stroke in crossing a difficult wake, giving Princeton an easy victory. The following week, the strong Cornell frosh and the talented Yale freshmen came to Lake Carnegie for what was probably the toughest meet of the season. The race developed into a two team struggle with the stronger Cornell team barely managing to hold a small lead over the Princeton crew for the victory. The two kilometer sprints followed on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. The frosh qualified second but finished a disappointing fourth in the main event with Syracuse, Navy, and Cornell crossing ahead of the baby Bengals. The last event of the year was the I.R.A. Regatta
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VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup
D.B.Hinchman 61, C.Campaigne 61, F.G.Brown 63, D.H.Latimer 62, N.B.Tucker 62, S.L.Harris 62, W.N.Lucas 63, W.W.Dyer 61, J.W.Van Zanten 62 (Cox)

HEAVYWEIGHT CAPT. DOUGLAS R. HENLEY 61 WITH DUTCH SCHOCH

FRESHMEN
Class of 1964
J.H.Hall, R.J.Faux, F.S.Welsh, J.E.Hughes, R.D.Dripps, J.D.Hastie, T.C.Gates, M.R.Aldrich, J.B.Street (Cox)

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at Syracuse. A powerful crosswind prevented the Tiger crew from hearing the starting signal, and they could manage only a fifth in a very tight finish. The 1961 Princeton freshman lightweight crew began its season impressively, but then slumped to finish with a 1-2 mark in dual competition and a second and a third place finish in two three-way efforts. Coach Al Poveys yearlings opened with a decisive triumph over Columbia on Lake Carnegie. Princetons 18-second margin seemed to augur well for the season. Next St. Josephs College came to Princeton, and the young Tigers troubles began. The Hawks from Philadelphia stroked to a comfortable two-length victory, despite an improved time recorded by the hapless Bengals. Seeking to improve their luck away from home, the Tigers met Cornell on Lake Cayuga. But Cornell routed the yearlings by seven lengths. On May 6, the traditional Wood-Hammond Cup race was rowed on the Schuylkill. Harvard, setting a steady and wearing pace, swept to an easy victory over host Penn, with the Tigers placing a poor third in the three-boat race over the mile and five-sixteenths course. On May 13 came the Big Three race for the Goldthwait Cup at Derby, Connecticut. Once again the Crimson had things all their own way, stroking to a 6-second victory over the Tigers, who managed to whip last-place Yale. The final event of the freshman season was the EARC meet at Worcester, Massachusetts. In their qualifying heat, the Tigers trailed Dartmouth, Harvard, and Penn, consequently failing to reach the finals, won by M.I.T.

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VARSITY
Navy Trophy Logg Cup
R.D.LeCount 62 (Stroke), A.D.Hall 62, P.S.Schroeder 62, S.P.Dicke 64, P.J.Bjorkholm 64, J.H.Clymer 62, Shenk 64, A.A.Jones 63, R.L.Burton 62 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
G.G.Rutherfurd 62 (Stroke), P.E.Hubbard 64, H.B.Horton 64, Darnell 62, C.B.Cotner 62, J.E.Pugh 63, S.C.Johnson 64, R.M.Olmsted 63, D.ODay 63 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1965
J.C.Nickerson, E.E.Watts, J.Erjavec, K.C.Harris, M.P.Clifford, W.W.Schoening, J.C.Clark, W.B.Parent, G.R.Morry (Cox)

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The dawn of the 1962 heavyweight crew season was a bright one for Princeton, as the Tigers opened by defeating a hapless Rutgers eight by a comfortable two-length margin. The victory on Lake Carnegie was the first in dual competition for the home team since 1958. Coasting on the wave of the long-sought triumph, the Orange and Black traveled to Annapolis as confident underdogs and fooled the prognosticators. Coming from behind, the Tigers nipped Navy in a close race whose outcome was in doubt until the finish. If the season had ended at this point, all would have been well. The fortunes of the Princeton team plummeted as, in the Childs Cup on the Harlem River, Penn and Columbia both took the measure of the tiger boat, the latter scoring its first triumph over Princeton in seventeen years. Returning to Carnegie, the Princeton team, plagued by its lack of weight and by (stroke) Dale LeCounts stomach cramp, could not quite catch M.I.T. but nipped Harvard and guest Rutgers in the Compton Cup. The Carnegie Cup at Derby, Connecticut, gave Princeton a chance to see a powerful Cornell team. The two-mile course was too much for the Tiger squad, still suffering from the lack of staying power and weight. Yale finished second in the triangular race. The annual Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges sprint competition was a dismal affair, for the Princeton boat failed to qualify for the final event, finishing last in its preliminary heat. A shaken-up version of the Varsity eight, packed with added weight, managed to finish tenth at the I.R.A. national regatta, as Cornell went home with all the marbles. In the final analysis, while the 1962 season may not have been a brilliant one for Princeton, it was a step in the right direction for Dutch Schochs heavyweight team, and injected a note of hope in the future of rowing at Princeton. The 2-3 record of the Princeton lightweight crew reflects the topsy-turvy season, which saw the Tiger oarsmen, like their heavyweight counterparts, start with a flourish only to sag late in the campaign. The Princeton eight opened against Columbia on the Harlem River and impressed the spectators by stroking powerfully to an easy win over the home squad. Keeping on their winning ways, the Tigers bested Navy in a thriller on the Severn. The race went right down to the wire, with Princeton pulling out a narrow two-second victory. The day was a glorious one, for Tiger squads in both weight divisions made a composite record of 5-1. The honeymoon was over as Cornells Big Red invaded Carnegie. Despite valiant efforts by a Princeton squad, the Cornellians crossed the line three seconds ahead of the Princeton boat. The historic pair of cups which crown the lightweight season were not to fall into the hands of Princeton. Guest entry Harvard swept past both Princeton and Penn, who managed to edge Princeton for the first time in ten years, and carried the Wood-Hammond Cup to Philadelphia. The best the Tiger team could manage was to trounce Rutgers, a second guest entry. The Goldthwait Cup followed a similar pattern, as Harvard again swept to victory. The Nassau eight managed to draw consolation by placing ahead of Yale, who brought up the rear of the three-boat finish. The Eastern sprints at Worcester, Massachusetts, ended the Tiger season on a slightly brighter note. After finishing a strong second in its qualifying heat, Princeton took fifth place in the wild and wooly finale, as MIT, Navy, and Cornell finished in a dead heat for first.

Freshman Crew
Despite the grave problem of lack of depth, the freshman heavyweight crew managed to compile a respectable record. In the first meet, with Rutgers, the race was a toss-up for three-quarters of a mile. However, toward the finish, the Tigers shortened up a bit and were unable to get the full value of the stroke they had had before. The Scarlets gradually pulled away and finished with open water to spare. But Princetons next race, a victory over Navy by over twentyfive seconds was an exceptional display of oarsmaship. A week later, in the Childs Cup against Pennsylvania and Columbia, the frosh came out on top by three lengths. In the Compton Cup, Rutgers, Harvard and MIT finished behind the Nassau frosh in that order. In a tough race for the Carnegie Cup, the frosh heavies made a poor showing and finished behind Harvard and Yale, respectively. Near the end of the race, Princeton closed in on Yale and almost caught the Elis, stroking as high as 36, but they fell back at the finish. In the EARC qualification heats, Princeton finished second to Cornell. But they fell down in the afternoon finals, placing fifth in a field of six, ten seconds behind the winners, Cornell. Coach Pete Sparhawks oarsmen took fourth in the IRA regatta, finishing behind Cornell and Rutgers and only.2 seconds behind third-place Washington. The freshman lightweight crew opened the season with notable success, downing its first three opponents. In an extremely close contest, Princeton managed to edge past Rutgers by a margin of a little more than a second. Next, at Annapolis, the Tigers stroked to a classic victory over a strong Navy squad. Then, battling rough waters and strong winds on Lake Carnegie, the Bengal frosh matched strokes with a fighting Ithacan crew in a very tight race, crossing the line only three-quarters length ahead of the Big Red shell. A powerful Cantab contingent outclassed Princeton in both the Wood-Hammond and the Goldthwait races. In the former race, on Lake Carnegie, the freshman crew early defeated Penn but trailed Harvard to the finish. Princeton outstroked Yale in the Goldthwait race but again fell prey to Harvards superior strength. In view of the performances early in the season, the crews showing in the EARC was somewhat disappointing. Princeton took second behind Cornell in the morning qualifying heat and fifth in the afternoon finals, placing thirteen seconds behind first-place Harvard. 1963 BRIC-A-BRAC

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1962 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITY
N.B.Tucker 62, B.H.Thurber 62, B.S.Cutler 62, W.N.Lucas 63, L.S.Allison 63, J.Todd 61, F.G.Brown 63, J.D.Hastie 64, J.B.Street 64 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1965
J.R.Fisher, Najziger, G.L.Anderson, Davis, F.J.Thielbar, J.J.Eaton, H.Osborne, C.S.Hicks, B.G.Yount (Cox)

1963 SENIORS
P.Frelinghuysen, D.Sexton, A.A.Jones (Capt.), Coach Schoch, J.E.Pugh, R.F.McCready, R.M. Olmsted (horizontal)

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The 1963 heavyweight crew season opened on a promising note as Princetons tallest and heaviest oarsmen in many years rowed away from Rutgers. The Tigers finished eight seconds ahead of the all-sophomore opposition. The Orange and Black then repeated their previous years win over Navy, the first such home victory since 1957. Princeton won by 1 lengths on a heavily-rippled course. Crew fans were soon treated to an excellent exhibition as the world champion Ratzeburg Rowing Club swept the field in the Childs Cup Race on Lake Carnegie. Columbia gained possession of the Cup for the first time in 23 years by finishing two lengths ahead of Penn and Princeton. The Germans, with their unconventional oars, kept up a pace that proved far too rapid for the competition, finishing at about 42 strokes per minute. The only Tiger win of the day came in the J.V. race. Houseparties weekend saw the Tigers in Cambridge for the Compton Cup Race. Princeton started strong and stayed in contention throughout most of the race, but faded at the finish as Harvard nipped M.I.T. by a yard. The Tigers trailed by twelve seconds in the 1 mile race against a strong headwind. Dartmouth, a guest entry, finished a distant fourth. Facing their toughest competition of the season, the heavies fared poorly in 38-degree temperature at Ithaca. Cornell and Yale dominated every race; but coach Dutch Schock was not discouraged, commenting We rowed as well as we ever have. Cornell took the event in 4:48. The Tigers provided a pleasant surprise in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges sprints at Worcester, Massachusetts, by finishing third to Cornell and Yale. Guest entry Ratzeburg, however, dazzled the field, as it edged Cornell by a length, after losing to the Big Red in a preliminary sprint. The J.V. heavies finished sixth, to give the Tigers eight points and fifth place overall, behind Cornell, Yale, Navy, and Harvard. Post-season competition reached an end with the I.R.A. regatta, won handily by Cornell. This affair added invaluable experience to a crew that will only have one position to fill before the coming racing season. There can be no hiding the already growing thirst for that trip to Tokyo, and the 1964 summer Olympics. Princetons lightweight crew, coached by Al Povey, equaled its previous years 2-3 record. In the opening race, Columbia outclassed the Tigers as they won by eleven seconds. The Tigers pulled even at the mile mark, but Columbia steadily increased the lead to a two-length margin. The 150s then entered the win column with a solid victory over Navy and Rutgers. The Tigers took command with half a mile to go in the 1 5/16 mile race. Navy, outstroking Princeton 34 to 32, could not hold off the Tiger drive. Rutgers was never a factor. At Cornell, all Tiger lightweight crews met defeat at the hands of the always powerful Big Red. The first boat came close, however, finishing only a half-length behind. The Tiger lightweight swept all three races against Penn on May 4. The varsity recaptured the Wood Hammond Trophy by sprinting in a length and a quarter ahead of Penn. Times were slowed by a strong headwind. Low temperatures and rain set the stage for the 150s at Cambridge against Harvard, Yale, and M.I.T. The varsity race was won by the Cantabs, who barely managed to hold on against a late Tiger surge. Both boats were stroking 38 at the finish, as Harvard squeezed in by one-tenth of a second. Yale came in twelve seconds later, and M.I.T. did not enter a varsity boat. The Tigers had to wait over an hour on the cold Charles River before the race began. In the E.A.R.C. Regatta, the varsity lightweights finished a strong fifth, four lengths behind victorious Cornell.

Freshman Crew
The Freshman heavyweight crew encountered rough waters during the spring season, finishing first in only one sprint. The Rutgers crew set the pace in the opening race on Lake Carnegie, widening an early lead to an eventual three boat difference. The Bengal frosh showed the need for experience and a smooth rhythm behind the oars. The heavies finally broke the ice the following Saturday, as Navy lost a lead of three quarters of a length with a mile to go. After a Middie caught a partial crab, the frosh steadied their stroke to about 33 and forged ahead. A faster and better conditioned Columbia crew showed the way by two lengths in the three-way meet on Carnegie. Princeton managed to edge past a weaker Penn boat for a second place finish. The following week, after the varsity crews had vied for the Compton Cup, the Princeton frosh showed good form and perseverance by finishing second behind a strong Harvard crew. MIT and Dartmouth lost the

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VARSITY
Navy Trophy Logg Cup
F.Meislahn 64 (Stroke), K.Harris 65, M.Clifford 65, S.Dicke 64, H.Horton 64, E.Watts 65, J.Erjavac 65, A.Jones 63, P.duPont 64 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
J.Nickerson 65 (Stroke), D.Sexton 63, P.Frelinghuysen 63, R.McCready 63, S.Johnson 64, J.Pugh 63, T.Popp 64, R.Olmsted 63, A.Miller 64 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1966
W.B.Willauer, L.R.Anderson, E.Cruikshank, P.C.Tower, S.F.Brown, A.D.Randall, A.Roomet, G.C.Hentschke, C.S.Davis (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1966
H.M.Birmingham, F.E.Nuessle, J.M.Rutledge, C.F.Dewey, L.P.Rutherfurd, G.C.Hentschke, M.L.Wood, S.V.Williams, A.Q.Carroll (Cox)

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battle for the runner-up position in the face of a strong headwind. A perennially strong Cornell crew felt the push put on by the hard-driving Yale and Princeton boats on Lake Cayuga; but, in the bitterly cold weather, the Tiger frosh dropped to third position just five seconds behind Big Red. Lake Quinsigamond was the scene of the annual EARC sprints, but the Bengal crew could not rise to the occasion, finishing sixth and last, a good twenty seconds behind first-place Harvard. Hampered by inexperience and late start because of cold weather, the freshman lightweight crew got off to a slow start dropping their first three outings. In their first race on Lake Carnegie, the 150s lost to a highstroking Columbia shell by four seconds. The result was no better against St. Andrews School, as the Tigers lost by almost three seconds on a shortened course. The lightweights record went to 0-3 after a trip to Ithaca. Cornell, which wins virtually all its races, handed the Orange and Black a twelve second defeat. Success finally came on the Schuylkill as the Tigers swept past Penn. A trip to Cambridge saw the lightweights place third to Harvard and MIT, while finishing ahead of Yale, which struggled in a minute after the winners. The 150s then came through with a surprising third place showing in the EARC sprints at Worcester and in doing so gained revenge on both MIT and Columbia. The frosh swept in a little over a length behind Harvard and Cornell. Their time of 6:42.5 was over ten seconds faster than the varsity. Coach Ken Blanchard attributed this fine showing to heart and raw power. With another two weeks of practice they might have gone a long way. 1964 BRIC-A-BRAC

LIGHTWEIGHT VARSITY
J.R.Fisher 65 (Stroke), C.Nafziger 65, C.K.Davis 65, F.Todd 63, F.G.Brown 63 (Capt.), F.J.Thielbar 65, M.B.Gasch 65, J.J.Eaton 65, J.B.Street 64 (Cox)

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VARSITY
Childs Cup Navy Trophy Logg Cup
F.Meislahn 64 (Stroke), K.C.Harris 65, M.P.Clifford 65, S.P.Dicke 64, H.B.Horton 64, D.A.Shults 65, A.Roomet 66, E.E.Watts 65, E.P.duPont 64 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
J.C.Nickerson 65, G.C.Hentschke 66, E.F.Dicke 68, S.P.Dicke 64, J.Erjavec 65, E.Cruikshank 66, S.C.Johnson 64, P.C.Tower 66, A.C.Miller 64 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1967
S.H.S.Magruder, R.A.Cocker, J.R.Millar, S.F.Brown, W.E.Dakin, J.C.Porter, T.L.Whipple, B.B.McLucas, R.E.Schleppy (Cox)

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An Olympic year always puts crew in the spring sports spotlight, and 1964 was no exception. Historically, the collegiate season reveals the most likely contenders for the Olympic berth, but 1964 would prove to be a watershed not only for Olympic rowing but also for rowing in general. After the collegiate season, a selected eight from the Vesper Boat Club surprised the collegiate aspirants at the Olympic trials. Vesper would go on to win Olympic gold in Tokyo over Ratzeburg (Ratzeburger Ruderclub e.V.), the world champion German rowing club that had won the Eastern Sprints by open water in 1963 and thereby introduced a new rowing style and training technique to the United States. increased their early lead as the Tigers failed to match the Crimsons execution. With this victory, Harvard established itself as a favorite for the Olympic team. Princeton also had a disappointing day in the other races: the JV and 3V boats each placed third. Returning to Lake Carnegie on Houseparties Weekend, the Tiger heavyweights took on Cornell and Yale for the Carnegie Cup but were again disappointed. Yale fought off a desperate and nearly successful sprint by the Big Red to win its 17th Carnegie Cup victory, by two seats. The Tigers crossed the finish line about nineteen seconds later. Yales 5:53.0 was a new Carnegie record; Cornell also bettered the existing mark. Coach Schoch attributed the Tigers trouble to timingduring most of the race, Princeton was understroking both shells. The same order of finish occurred in the JV and 3V events. Princetons heavyweight crews took a decisive beating at the EARC Sprints held in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 16. The day was to rank as the low point of the season. The Tigers lost to crews they had previously beaten and failed to qualify for the championship race when they finished behind Harvard, Wisconsin and Syracuse in the qualifying heat. The Tigers placed third in the afternoon consolations, behind Navy and Dartmouth. The JVs also failed to qualify for the finals and placed eleventh. The overall team standings saw Princeton in tenth position. Harvard captured both the Varsity and JV events to win the Rowe Trophy. The Varsity and JV heavies resumed practice after final exams to prepare for the IRA Regatta in Syracuse on June 20. Here the Tigers redeemed themselves by finishing a strong fourth in the national competition. Only California, Washington and Cornell eclipsed the Tigers. The race was the first over 2000 meters in IRA history, and the winners time was 6:32.1; Princeton was clocked in 6:45.9. The JV did not qualify for the finals and placed second to Wisconsin in the consolation race. In the overall standings for the Ten Eyck Trophy, the Tiger shells placed seventh. Thus the heavyweight boat had proven itself to be one of the top crews in the East, if not in the country, in a year of many excellent teams. One of Princetons best eights in recent years, the heavyweight Varsitys showing, plus the interest and support it received from the students, showed that crew at Princeton is definitely on the rise.

1964 Heavyweight Varsity

The Princeton heavyweight Varsity, along with a halfdozen other schools, expected to be in the running for the Olympics. The Tiger crew had seven returning lettermen, led by captain and stroke Fin Meislahn 64, and was repeatedly billed as taller than the basketball team and heavier than the football team. The season began on April 11 with a one-length victory over Rutgers in a time of 8:50.8, which was Princetons best effort over Lake Carnegies mile and three-quarter course since 1961. The Tiger shell, rowing at 36, nearly had open water after the first half-mile. Princeton settled at 32, and when Rutgers gradually drew back, cox Paul duPont called for a power ten that moved Princeton to a commanding lead. The JV jumped to an early open-water lead and were not pushed, and the Third Varsity also captured an easy victory. Hopes for a fine season received a big boost the following weekend when the Tigers defeated an experienced Navy shell by two seconds on the Severn River. It was the third straight win for Princeton over the Middies. Starting at 40, the Tiger shell took a quick, psychologically advantageous lead and rowed a smooth, fast race in 9:08.3. The JV boat, however, lost its first shirts of the year, by three lengths, and the 3V also trailed Navy. The Tigers met Pennsylvania and Columbia on the Schuylkill River on April 25 and returned with the Childs Cup for the first time since 1957 and only the 13th time in its 57-year history. Penn was second, a length back, and Columbia trailed by two additional lengths. Ten thousand spectators, warned by the regatta committee to cut down on the mass drunkenness, saw Columbias early lead erased as Princeton settled to a steady 33 pace. Meislahn and duPont increased the rate to 36 to fight off a Penn challenge and keep the Tigers undefeated. The JV finished an easy two-length victor, and the 3V also won by open water. The Princeton heavies encountered superior competition in the race for the Compton Cup the following weekend. Harvard defeated the previously unbeaten Tigers by more than three lengths over the Charles Rivers 2000-meter course, in 6:00.5. Yet Princetons 6:14.4 still bettered the previous course record and was two lengths ahead of MIT. Rowing smoothly and efficiently, the Cantabs gradually

1964 Lightweight Varsity

Princetons lightweight crew seemed to have found a groove in the prior few years, but it was a groove from which Coach Al Povey preferred to be extracted. The lightweight Varsity again finished with the same 2-3 record it attained for the past three seasons. Pre-season practice conditions offered little indication that prospects would be significantly better this year. Notwithstanding an early thaw, the team, built around four (continued)

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VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup
K.A.Owen 66, C.S.Hicks 65, M.J.Davis 64, E.Z.Walworth 66, M.B.Gasch 65, J.J.Eaton 65, J.M.Anderson 65, R.H.Carlile 64, J.B.Street 64 (Cox, Capt.)

JUNIOR VARSITY
R.J.Faux 64 (Stroke), R.B.McGinley 66, P.E.Hansen 66, P.St.John 64, R.A.Singer 66, J.H.Redpath 64, J.R.Fisher 65, C.C.Joseph 64, J.C.Slaybaugh 66 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1967
J.D.Dupcak, J.H.Wetzel, B.H.Triller, R.W.Beart, (Coach Blanchard), J.D.Patch, F.K.Sutterlin, W.F.Kiefer, C.F.Taeusch, G.B.Reilly (Cox)

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returning lettermen headed by cox and captain Jim Street, encountered a discouraging early spring on Lake Carnegie. Besides the weatherwhich turned unseasonably coldhigh winds made effective practice extremely difficult during the critical development period for a relatively inexperienced squad. In the season opener at New York, the Tigers overcame both the absence of Street due to an apparent case of German Measles as well as a first boat that was unsettled until two days before the race. The Bengals reversed the prior years eleven-second drubbing at the hands of Columbia to nip the Lions by a two second, half-length margin. Columbia had its strongest crew in recent years, and the victory, in 7:12, was a sweet one for Povey. He characterized the Lion shell as big, strong, and good, and one of the teams to beat for the season. The Tiger JV (the original Good Guy crew) trailed Columbia by ten seconds. On the mile and 5/16ths course against Navy the following week, the varsity squad had a poor showing. After taking an early lead, the Tiger Varsity eight settled roughly to a 31. The Midshipmen, maintaining 34 strokes per minute, earned a one-length lead at the settle and stretched it to two lengths through the body of the race. The Bengals were unable to gain in their sprint and trailed by eight seconds at the finish line. The JV also lost to their Navy counterpart by two lengths. It was about this time that Street uttered the immortal, metaphysical words Whats it going to be, the apple or the orange? (Rowers are still trying to decide.) In a three-boat match on Lake Carnegie on April 25, the Tigers found themselves in the wake of both a Cornell team rated the best in the league and a supposedly mediocre but surprising Rutgers. The Big Red crews swept all races. The Varsity gap was a substantial 18 secondsmore than four lengths. Povey described Cornell as the strongest crew in the league and an odds-on bet to retain the crown, but he also optimistically if not quixotically added, if we row our best race, we can give them a battle. On the following weekend, the Bengals retained the Wood-Hammond Cup by trouncing the shell from Pennsylvania by 0:15.2 in a good race on Lake Carnegie. The Varsity took a lead at the start and gradually increased it to four lengths, sprinting at 39 across the line. The momentum of the Penn victory was short-lived, however, as the Tigers placed second in the Big Three competition for the Goldthwait Cup on Yales curved course at Derby, Connecticut. Princeton finished behind a strong Cantab octet but ahead of Yale. In the EARC Sprints at Worcester, the Varsity qualified for the final by virtue of a third-place finish in the morning heat. The spent Tigers, faced with a stiff quartering headwind, were unable to challenge in the afternoon final, and finished sixth. Cornell, judged to be one of the fastest lightweight crews in history, dominated the Varsity race with an impressive ten-second win over second-place MIT, a crew that had edged the Tigers by only two seconds in the heat. The Princeton time was 7:28.0. The Bengal JV also qualified for the final and finished sixth. The Princeton lightweight squads fourth place overall in the Jope Cup standings, when added to an impressive group of freshmen, gave cause for optimism for the varsity squads future.

Heavyweight Freshman Crew

The freshman heavyweight crew faced its opening race with Rutgers with cautious optimism. Coach Pete Sparhawks inexperienced squad had jelled late in the pre-season, but the yearling eight was eager to test its strength against the Scarlet Knights. The Tiger shell, stroked by Sam Magruder, led all the way and won by more than a length in the time of 9:07 over 1 miles. The following week saw the frosh beat a highly touted Navy shell by over four seconds. With a mile to go, cox Ron Schleppy called for surprise power 20, and Navy never again challenged. The second frosh trailed Navys second boat by a length. On April 25, the first frosh drove to a one-length victory over Penn and a previously undefeated Columbia eight. Although under-stroking its opponents, the Tiger cubs were never behind. The 2F completed a Princeton sweep with a two-length victory. The undefeated heavyweight freshmen were cautiously bullish as they traveled to Cambridge the following weekend to take on Harvard and MIT. After a false start, Harvard took an early lead in the rough water. A late drive by the Tigers caught the MIT shell but was not enough to surpass the Cantabs, who held off Princeton by a length. The last week of the regular season saw Princeton matched against Yale and Cornell on home waters. The Tigers gained a rare victory over Cornell, but the Elis proved superior and finished six seconds ahead of the Tigers in the time of 6:06 over 2000 meters. The Princeton second boat was victorious. In the EARC Sprints, the third-seeded Princeton freshmen could manage only a sixth-place finish. It was the only Tiger heavyweight point of the day. Cornell, which had trailed the Bengals a week earlier, won the event by coming from behind to beat Harvard by a length. Brown and Yale also finished ahead of the Tigers. Coach Sparhawk declared that the strong head wind, the protected nature of the course, and the unfavorable lane placement cost his crew a probable second or third place. The season ended with the IRA regatta where the frosh failed to place in the top six but won the consolation race. Still, they compiled a 6-2 record and were one of the best heavyweight freshman crews at Princeton in recent years.

Lightweight Freshman Crew

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crew training. Seven months and many indoor sessions later, the seventy were thinned down to three boats of nine men each, as Blanchard began his second year coaching the frosh lightweights. The pre-season was auspicious: in the boathouse races before the inter-collegiate matches began, the 67 frosh crew beat every other lightweight shell at Princeton, including the Varsity. As the lightest of all crewsaveraging 150 dehydrated pounds at weigh-inthis was quite a feat. The regular season was successful, though not overwhelmingly so. In the first race of the season, the Tigers were shocked by eventual undefeated, EARC frosh champion Columbia by a disappointing 12 seconds on the Harlem River. The Princeton second boat was victorious. Led by stroke Joe Dupcak and cox Greg Reilly, the Tiger cubs got their first taste of victory with a ten-second win over Navy on the Severn the next weekend. The Princeton second and third frosh also were winners. On April 25, Cornell surpassed the Tiger first and second boats, but on the following weekend, the frosh oarsmen returned to their winning ways and joined the Varsity in sweeping Penn on Lake Carnegie. The first boat won by a length and a half, and the second boat by two lengths. At Derby, the annual Big Three showdown with Harvard and Yale saw the Tigers first boat trail both opponents, but the Orange and Black second frosh boat won, to prevent a Harvard sweep. The highlight of the spring is the EARC Sprint Championships at Worcester, Massachusetts, and the finals proved to be the peak of the Bengal freshmens season. Against fourteen other frosh shells from the Eastern seaboard, Princeton, ranked eighth before the event, took a powerful second, the best finish of the day for any Princeton crew, heavy or light, varsity or frosh. The under-rated Tiger cubs led all the way until the last few strokes, when Columbia edged them out by less than a foot. The success of the Tiger lightweight cubs came over several apparent handicaps: the frosh were almost entirely novices, and Coach Blanchard, a graduate chemistry student, volunteered his services for the second year. His first year at molding the freshmen into good crew form had been nearly as successful, having achieved third place at last years Sprints. This 1967 squad worked very hard under his direction and ended the season with a satisfying record, a spectacular showing at the Sprints, and hunger for future success. ADAPTED FROM THE 1965 BRIC-A-BRAC

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VARSITY
Childs Cup Navy Trophy
M.Clifford 65, S.Brown 67, J.Garrett 65, L.Anderson 65, E.Watts 65, A.Roomet 66, B.Cocker 67, C.Nickerson 65, C.Davis 65 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
S.H.S.Magruder 67, S.VWilliams 66, J.R.Millar 67, A.D.Randall 66, G.C.Hentschke 66, J.Erjavec 65, B.B.McLucas 67, D.H.Wilson 67, J.W.VanDyke 65 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1968
J.R.Keller, T.R.Johnson, G.E.Hesselbacher, S.O.Pierce, P.W.Gloyd, C.L.Touhey, P.H.Raymond, W.Pyle, B.C.Hoffman (Cox)

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If 1964 was a year when change in the sport of rowing began, the status quo continued at Princeton for most of the next year. But 1965 would prove to be the eighth and final year of Coach Al Poveys stewardship of the lightweight Varsity, and legendary Coach Dutch Schoch would hang up his megaphone after two decades at the helm of the heavyweights. Once the season began, the dominance of Harvard, the early adopter of the Ratzeburg rowing and training style, would shock its competition into a hasty and ineffective mid-season style change. By the end of April, Princeton would join the panic and attempt a conversion: fast-handsfrom-the-bow-and-slow-to-the catch would be reversed to a shorter, higher stroke that allowed the shell to run during a pause after the release, and the lack of any pause whatsoever before the sharp catch reduced the checking of the boat. Childs Cup. Coach Schoch described morale as high as the Tigers prepared for the meet. Columbia was supposed to give the Tigers little competition: their morale had been a bit too high a bit too late one evening, which resulted in the suspension of several Lions for violating training regulations. As it turned out, the spirited Bengal crew vanquished the poor weather, and unlucky lane draw, a crab, and the Pennsylvania and Columbia crew to take its 18th Childs Cup. The Bengal eight won going away, besting the Quakers by three feet of open water, and overcoming a surprisingly strong patchwork Columbia team by another half length. On Saturday, May 1, a Harvard crew termed by many to be the best in the world shocked Princeton rowing when it slashed almost twenty-one seconds off the Lake Carnegie course record. The Cantab time was 8:15 over a mile and three-quarters. According to Coach Schoch, Harvard rowed effortlessly, and had to expend little effort in their ninelength victory over second place MIT. The Tiger oarsmen lost a lead which they had held over MIT for 75% of the race and thus found themselves two lengths behind the Engineers at the finish. Nevertheless, the Tiger boat finished with a very credible time of 8:52.2. In reflecting upon what was perhaps the fastest race of such length ever rowed, Coach Schoch prophetically said, This Harvard crew has started a new era in racing. The Bengal oarsmen, willing to go with a good thing even if it was innovated by Harvard, spent the entire week practicing the Ratzeburg (and now Harvard) quick-recovery stroke in preparation for the Carnegie Cup Regatta the next week. As it turned out, a quick recovery was exactly what the Princetonians lacked as they relinquished a lead to both Yale and Cornell to show in a field of three. The Big Red swept the field in the Varsity event by about the same margin as in the JV and freshmen races, but the Tigers and Elis rowed close to Cornell for most of the course, the Bengal oarsmen fading just enough at the end to allow Yale to open water. It was an especially disheartening race for the Tiger oarsmen who had led Yale most of the way, but for some reason they faded at the finish. The Tiger heavies entered the Eastern Sprints at Worcester, Massachusetts, unseeded and coming off desperate workouts and last minute changes. Princetons only point of the day came in the lightweight Jope Cup standings thanks to a sixth place finish by the yearling crew. In the heavyweight Varsity championship, Harvard won as expectedby an impressive 2 lengths over Cornelland was the first crew to sweep all three heavyweight races since Navy in 1952. The Tiger boat did not reach the finals by virtue of finishing fourth in a qualifying heat of five shells. Only a bedraggled Penn crew slithered home in worse time than the Tiger boat. The showing, though, was mitigated by the fact that the races featured the finest boats in the East. At the IRAs on June 19 in Syracuse, the Tiger Varsity placed a disappointing 14th out of 15. Navy won, followed (continued)

1965 Heavyweight Varsity

The 1965 heavyweight crew season opened on a pessimistic note. Coach Dutch Schoch admitted even before the first oar was pulled in competition that its been a tough spring, and it looks like we could be in trouble. Poor weather and a long winter were the hindrances to the crews progress to which he was referring. The Tiger boats were proving that practice sometimes makes less perfect as the Tiger oarsmen and repeatedly turned practice times slower than those of the previous years despite the fact that this years oarsmen had already logged 85 more miles than its immediate antecedent. A major reason for the disparity in times cited by Coach Schoch was that this years oarsmen were still rowing as individuals not yet as a team. This cast an ominous shadow on Tiger hopes of success since, in order to achieve success in crew, everyone must pull together. Another problem confronting the heavies was a lack of experience. Four lettermen returned to help fill the first boat, but gaps were left at the stroke seat and in the engine room, between new stroke (but Varsity veteran and captain) Mike Clifford and number three man, Lynn Anderson. The oarsmen faced a rugged schedule but were aided by their large size, with a first boat average of 6 3 in height and a hefty 194 pounds in weight. The Tiger heavyweights opened their season against Rutgers. Princeton had not lost to the Scarlet Knights in four years, but this year Rutgers defeated the Tigers by a boat length in the opener at Lake Carnegie. The Orange and Black crew braved strong headwinds in a desperate attempt at a Silky Sullivan finish by upping their stroke count from 31 to 34, but an equally determined Rutgers squad staved off the rally to win by four seconds. Against one of the strongest Navy teams in recent years, the opportunistic Bengal crew took advantage of a Navy crab midway through the race to swamp the Midshipmen at their own game on Lake Carnegie. The next week on the lake, the heavies took on Columbia and Penn in the

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GOOD GUY CREW
R.Prentke 67, R.McGinley 66, F.Sutterlin 67, J.Anderson 65, J.Atkinson 67, P.Hansen 66, J.Patch 67, K.Owen 66, J.Aron 67 (Cox)

VARSITY
J.D.Dupcak 67 (Stroke), J.H.Wetzel 67, E.A.Walworth 66, M.B.Gasch 65, B.H.Triller 67, J.R. Fisher 65 (Capt.), C.F.Taeusch 68, J.H. Patch 67, G.B.Reilly 67 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
R.McGinley 66, J.Patch 76, P.Hansen 66, J.Anderson 65, K.Owen 66, F.Sutterlin 67, R.York 67, R.O.Prentke 67, Al Povey (Coach), J.Aron 67 (Cox)

THIRD FRESHMEN LIGHTWEIGHTS

Class of 1968
Standing: R.C.Seaver, M.H.Fry, D.R.Wheeler, A.Sussman, D.M.Cole, D.Elam, J.P.Doran, G.OKeefe, P.S.Sangren Kneeling: P.B.Fitzpatrick, W.Potter Reclining: G.L.Waring, R.S.Faron

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(continued) A week later, the 150s left behind Rutgers and Navy. Propelled by a chilling twenty-five mile per hour tail wind that was almost too helpful for the crews rowing, Princeton turned in one of its finest performances of the season. The time for the victorious Bengals was 6:43.1, nine-tenths of a second in front of the Middies and exactly ten seconds ahead of the Scarlet Knights. Princetons JV once again romped to a lopsided victory. Against Cornell on the twisty inlet course in Ithaca, the powerful Big Red Varsity lights made a strong bid for another year of eastern supremacy by outclassing the Tigers by a full six lengths. Headwinds hindered both crews as last years undefeated Sprint champions won their eighth straight race. The Bengal JV led early in their race but were unable to hold off their opponents mid-race move. The Orange and Black lights bounced back from the Cornell loss with a strong race against Penn on the Schuykill the following week. The Tiger won by ten seconds (2 lengths) over the quick-starting Quakers in an ideal type of racePrinceton kept even at the start and simply kept moving out on Penn through the entire race distance. The Tiger JV also returned to their winning ways with an open-water victory over the Quaker second varsity. Princetons rebound was short-lived, however. In a bid for the Goldthwait Cup the following weekend on Lake Carnegie, the Tigers were faced with two fast Ivy rivals, Harvard and Yale, for the Big Three title. The Harvard program was receiving national publicity, and Yale was also having an excellent season. The Cantabs won and the Tiger Varsity trailed in the final competition of the regular season. The JV (continued)

sunk to the murky depths of defeat. This cannot, however, negate the tremendous drive displayed by the Bengal oarsmen. For a crew that more than had its hands full trying to pull its oars against rugged competition, persistently inclement weather denied the oarsmen valuable practice time, and a brutal schedule proved to be just a bit too much.

The season itself saw the Tiger heavies riding the wave of victory too infrequently. More often the oarsmen

by Cornell and Washington. The JV were 11th out of 12.

1965 Lightweight Varsity

Under Coach Al Povey, Princetons lightweight crew began the 1965 rowing season intent on bettering its two previous seasons marks of two wins and three losses. It succeeded, but not spectacularly, with a record of three and four. On Lake Carnegie on April 6, the Varsity, laden with an unusually large number of sophomores, tried doubly hard to win. These sophomores were beaten by a foot the year before in the Sprint Championships by many of those now sitting in the Columbia Varsity. The Varsity stroke was sophomore Joe Dupcak, and the cox was sophomore Greg Reilly. Coach Povey had regularly reminded the oarsmen that the lion was roaring as they ran the Dillon Gym stairs over the winter with sandbags on their shoulders. But the Lions ruined the debut of the new Tiger Varsity; Princeton rowed a rough race, rushed their slides, and were simply too eager to win. After a mile, the Light Blue raised their pace and pulled to a boatlength lead by the finish line. The Bengal JV (which operated under the nom de guerre of Fat O and the Good Guys and may have been the first Tiger crew to create its own practice tee shirts) won by several lengths of open water.

CELEBRATION OF SENIORS
Back Row: M.P.Clifford 65, J. Erjavec 65, J.R.Garrett 66, Dutch Schoch, E.E.Watts 65, J.D.Robinson 65 Front Row: W.W.Schoening 65, J.C.Nickerson 65, J.W.VanDyke 65

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VARSITY
Navy Trophy Logg Cup
P.H.Raymond 68, S.F.Brown 67, J.R.Millar 67, S.V.Williams 66, L.R.Anderson 66, T.R.Johnson 68, D.L.Marsh 68, R.A.Cocker 67, C.S.Davis 66 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
J.M.Bogert 68, A.D.Randall 66, R.S.Greathead 68, B.B.McLucas 67, P.W.Gloyd 68, G.C.Hentschke 66, J.D.Hamilton 66, J.H.Pyle 69, J.L.Soong 67 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1969
W.B.Tytus, S.M.F.Williams, S.T.Lindo, R.G.Wright, D.Wallender, W.G.Sykes, I.R.Trimble, D.I.Foy, W.M.Lix (Cox)

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(continued) of 12 crews. Navy took the gold.

placed second. In the Eastern Sprint Championships at Worcester, Massachusetts, the lightweight Varsity, faced with competition from twelve of the Easts top crew powers, including both Cornell and Harvard, were edged out in the qualifying heats and failed to qualify for the first level finals. Cornell came out on top of the Jope Cup standings for the third year in succession, and its Varsity led the field throughout the championship race to win in 6:21.1. The Tiger JV also failed to qualify but convincingly won their consolation final in the afternoon. The season, though not a winning one, held promise of a better crew in 1966. A strong group of now-experienced sophomores, with two more years of varsity eligibility ahead of them, combined with a deep freshman squad moving up to the varsity level, should provide the raw material for future success.

Freshman Lightweights
The Tiger Freshman Lightweight Crew opened its season on April 10th with a confrontation with the Light Blue of Columbia. The course was the traditional lightweight Henley distance of a mile and five-sixteenths on Princetons Lake Carnegie. In the first twenty strokes of the race, one of the Lion oarsmen caught a slight crab, and it looked as if Princeton might win an easy decision. Columbia, however, was not willing to concede the race, and they restarted and rapidly closed water on the complacent Bengal boat. The fired up Lions continued their advance, passed the Princeton eight and crossed the finish a length and three-quarters ahead of the Tigers. A week later, Coach Ken Blanchards lightweights rallied to beat a Rutgers team on a placid Lake Carnegie. Fair tailwinds helped push the Tigers down the course in the reputable time of 6:58. Throughout the early part of the race Princeton, stroking a smooth 36, held a half-length lead over the Rutgers boat. With a half mile to go, the Scarlet Knights took the stroke up in an effort to pass the Bengal boat but caught a crab instead. The Tigers took advantage of the situation, opened up their lead further and crossed the finish well ahead of their New Jersey adversaries. With the prospect of the next weeks race against Cornell, Coach Blanchard said he thought the lightweights would make a good showing if they could cut ten seconds from their time, a tall order. Such was not to be the case as the Bengals failed to adjust to the Lake Cayuga course. Both Princeton and Cornell turned in disappointing times of 7:37 and 7:32 respectively. The Tigers managed a victory over Penn at Philadelphia on the following weekend, but fell to Harvard on Lake Carnegie. Lightweight frosh crew for 1965 was concluded on May 15th at the EARC Sprint Championship at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester. Although the Frosh Lightweights performed better than any other Tiger boat in managing to qualify for the finals, they came in a disappointing last out of six entries in the final sprint. Not surprisingly Harvard, MIT and Cornell took the medals. ADAPTED FROM THE 1966 BRIC-A-BRAC

Freshman Heavyweights

The 1965 Freshman Heavyweight Crew season started on a pessimistic note on April 10. In a mile and three-quarter race on Lake Carnegie, the Tigers dropped their maiden encounter to the Rutgers frosh as both boats posted disappointing times. Heavyweight coach Pete Sparhawk began to fiddle with the line-up in his first boat in an effort to come up with a winning combination. The juggling proved to no avail, however, as an Annapolis team averaging 15 pounds a man more than the Bengals pulled out a discouraging 1 length victory in the years second race. A brisk 20 mile an hour wind kept the water rough; but the Tigers sounded one optimistic note in cutting their time by more than a minute over the previous week. Finally, on April 24 at the 58th Childs Cup Regatta, practice paid off for the heavies. On a choppy Lake Carnegie, Sparhawks 1F logged their best competitive time of the year in the course of inching out a victory over both Columbia and Penn in one of the years most exciting races. After three quarters of a mile of the 1 mile race, it looked as if Princeton was about to drop its third race. The heavies had stayed even with Columbia but rowed in the wake of the Quaker boat. At the half way mark Princeton made its move, passing Columbia and beginning to close water on Penn. Crawling up on the Quaker boat, the Bengals slipped into the lead with less than a quarter mile to go. Increasing their lead to half a length, the Tigers managed to stave off a desperate Penn attack which carried the Quakers to within a second of the Bengals as they crossed the finish line. The Tigers last regular season race was at the Carnegie Cup Regatta, with the Bengals pitted against Cornell and Yale. A combination of the Housatonic River at Derby, Connecticut and a two-mile course rattled the Tigers, who fell before the driving frosh of both Cornell and Yale. At the IRAs in Syracuse, the Tiger cubs placed the best of the three heavyweight boats, but it crossed the line 8th out

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VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup
J.P.Doran 68, C.M.Lewis 68, R.H.Braunohler 68, R.O.Prentke 67, J.F.Kerrick 68, R.W.Beart 67, J.D.Dupcak 67, C.D.Byers 65, G.B.Reilly 67 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
R.B.McGinley 66, A.D.Fulton 67, R.S.Jonash 68, P.S.Sangren 68, R.S.Faron 68, J.H.Wetzel 67, G.R.Hansen 66, R.C.Seaver 68, D.M.Cole 68 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1969
S.C.Crane, N.R.Hoff, G.K.Hayes, A.G.Piranian, J.S.Deupree, D.J.Danser, J.B.Macon, J.M.Warden, Coach Ernie Cruikshank 66, B.C.Stoddard (Cox)

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A new era dawned in Princeton rowing in the fall of 1965. Both varsity programs began training in September under new coaches who had adopted both the Ratzeburg rowing and training styles, complete with Ayling spoon oars featuring wider and shorter blades. Pete Sparhawk moved from the freshman heavies to succeed Dutch Schoch as Varsity Heavyweight coach, while former heavyweight stroke and captain Fin Meislahn 64 returned to Princeton to replace Al Povey as coach of the Tiger Varsity Lightweights. Any initial concern the lights may have had about a former heavyweight as their coach were soon dispelled, and Meislahn would in time become a Tiger lightweight rowing icon. Princeton quickly enjoyed a united boathouse. Sparhawk and Meislahn symbolically replaced what had been separate heavyweight and lightweight locker rooms with a varsity and a freshman locker room. Princetons unique reputation today as a unified and mutually supportive boathouse can be traced back to the efforts of these men. Heavyweight coach Pete Sparhawk took a chance on an untested young man from New York who was adamant about coaching the frosh heavies. After three successful years at Princeton, Steve Gladstone would go on to coach a string of championship crews at Harvard, Brown, and Cal. Columbia, for the first time in three years, at New Yorks Orchard Beach course. The Lightweight Varsity, stroked by sophomore Jack Doran, fought off strong shifting winds to cop a 1-length victory after cox Greg Reilly engineered a prompt response to a belated Lion charge at the finish. The JV more than matched the Varsity performance as they rolled up a five-length lead against the Lion second boat. Sweep of Navy. The red-hot Tiger crews continued their victorious momentum the following week when both lights and heavies swept Navy on the Severn River, much to the disappointment of the gold braid assembled on the Admirals barge at the finish line. The Tiger Heavyweight Varsity left Navy, the prior years IRA champs, wallowing in an orange-and-black wake. Princeton rowed as high as 38 strokes per minute to gain an open-water lead after the first half mile and maintain it down the course to win the Princeton-Navy Cup by 5.4 seconds in a time of 9:22.7 over 1 miles. The JV heavyweight crew won its race in a time of 9:37 as it opened water in the last half mile to win by two lengths The Lightweight Varsity briefly fell a seat behind at the start, but settled to the long, steady strokes at 33 and drove to a half-length lead with half a mile to go. Doran raised the stroke rate and held off a late 38-stroke-per-minute bid by Navy to win over the Henley distance (1 5/16-mile) in 7:11.5, also by open water. Rutgers limped home last. The lightweight JV rowed away from its competition for the second week. Although the Navy crew rowed higher, the Bengals strokes were far more effective as they opened water in the first half mile and then glided home to an easy 3-length victory in 7:15.8 over Navy and Rutgers. Losses on Lake Carnegie. The heavyweights next took on Penn and Columbia at home in the 58th annual Childs Cup regatta. The Princeton crew was optimistic, and Coach Sparhawk proclaimed that victory is well within the realm of possibility. Unfortunately for the Tigers, defeat was also within the realm of possibility. The Princeton Heavyweight Varsity saw their first wake of the year as they trailed the Pennsylvania boat to the finish line by half a length. The crews were even after a mile, but Penn had gained a length through three successive drives. A valiant Tiger effort, which saw Raymond cranking the rate as high as 40 strokes per minute in the last quarter mile, cut the lead in half before the finish line was crossed in 8:38.1. Columbia was never in the race. The JV heavyweight race was also essentially between Princeton and Penn, as Columbia never contended. After an early Tiger lead, the Quakers moved as far as a length ahead, and the Bengals sprint could narrow the final margin only to of a length. The Lightweight Varsity had no better luck in its race against Cornell and Rutgers, also on Lake Carnegie. Coach Meislahn had hoped to be the spoiler of a Cornell crew that had been Sprint champions for the prior three years. After a mid-week boating switch, the lightweights rowed as high as (continued)

Varsity Crews

In the fall, the crews learned the new Ratzeburg stroke and were introduced to the unknown concept of paddling and rowing for intervals at different power levels. Over the winter, practice sessions continued off the water, the concepts of circuit and interval training were introduced, and especially the lightweights became deeply involved in weightlifting, adopting the slogan pecs are key. The spring winds blew cold over Lake Carnegie as the Princeton heavyweights under captain Lynn Anderson braved weather, illness and shifting combinations in practice for their upcoming season. The lightweights, on the other hand, set their boatings earlier, which helped them outrow the heavies several times in the pre-season. Led by captain Bob McGinley, the lights were optimistic that, under a new coach, they would return to the first division in the EARC. The Coaches Debuts. Despite the lack of quality practice, Sparhawks debut as a varsity coach was a success in the Logg Cup. The heavyweights erased an early Rutgers lead to pull even at the half-mile mark and steadily advance. Over the final mile, the moves Rutgers attempted at each quartermile were repulsed as the Tigers earned a 2-length victory. Their time of 9:20 at 32 strokes per minute by sophomore stroke Peter Raymond and cox Clay Davis understroked Rutgers and avenged the prior years loss. The heavyweight JV crew was not so fortunate and suffered the only Princeton loss of the day in succumbing to a more powerful Rutgers JV by 2 lengths. While the heavies were defeating Rutgers, the lightweights anticipated some of the years toughest competition against Columbia. The Tigers provided Meislahn with a solid victory in his first race as a Princeton coach by drowning

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42 strokes per minute to capture a -length lead at the threequarter-mile maker. But with a half-mile to go, and the Tigers rowing at 35, Rutgers and Cornell brought the race to a dead heat, and perennial nemesis Cornell pulled steadily ahead while Rutgers and Princeton fought it out for second place. Cornell had of a length with a quarter mile to go when it upped its beat to 38. The Tigers were slow to respond but managed to raise their rate and sustain the lead over Rutgers in a close finish. Cornell won by a length. The JV lights also lost, but the sweep was saved by a Tiger 3V victory. Roadtrip Split. A cold, windy and rainy week of practice followed, but both Bengal squads remained in high spirits. On Saturday, the heavyweights suffered their second loss, this time by powerhouse Harvard on the Charles, notwithstanding the fact that the Crimson had lost six of the men from their record-breaking crew of the prior year. All the heavyweight crews had to fight a strong headwind. The 1V stayed close while clashing with the choppy water for the first quarter mile, but the Harvard crew adapted much better to the rough conditions by lowering its stroke rate below 30 several times, while the Tigers struggled at 32 strokes per minute. The Cantabs opened water on Princeton and MIT after only half a mile, had three lengths at the mile, and continued to increase their lead to an eventual five-length victory in 9:46.8 on the 1-mile course. The Tigers took second place in the Compton Cup by two lengths over MIT. Coach Sparhawk considered the Crimson eight pretty outstanding but was sufficiently disappointed with the Bengal performance to forecast a possible shakeup in the boatings. The JV heavyweights fared even worse. They lost ground after the mile mark and placed third, two lengths behind Harvard and a frustrating four feet behind MIT. The Tiger lightweights returned to their winning ways as they defeated Penn, Dartmouth, and Georgetown to capture the 21st Wood-Hammond Cup race on a rainy but flat Lake Carnegie. After a late start due to a sinking stake boat, the Tiger Varsity overcame a slight Quaker lead at the start to draw even with their higher stroking opponents in the body of the race. Penn was first to raise the stroke in anticipation of the finish, but the Tigers responded at the milepost. The determined Bengals put it into overdrive and sprinted as high as 39 to pull ahead for a length and a half victory over the spent Quakers in 6:13.0. Dartmouth was another 1 lengths back, and Georgetown trailed by a further length. The JV race was a cliffhanger in which the lead changed hands between Princeton and Penn no less than five times. Once again, however, the pace was too much for Penn in the last quarter, and the fit Tigers sprinted to a length triumph. Princetons undefeated Third Varsity extended its undefeated streak with a 2 length drubbing of Penn. Houseparties Away. In the final week of the regular season, both Tiger Varsities faced some of their stiffest competition far from Houseparties Weekend. The heavyweights traveled to Ithaca for the Carnegie Cup. Syracuse joined the regular opponents, Yale and Cornell. The lightweights visited Cambridge for the Big Three championship in the Goldthwait Cup race. The heavyweights, who last held the Carnegie Cup in 1952, were once again frustrated despite some boating changes. The Big Red pushed to a one-length victory, in 10:55, over the longer, two-mile Ithaca course in a moderate headwind. The Tigers only solace was a length over Yale and more than three additional lengths over Syracuse. Princeton had trailed both Cornell and Yale after a mile but then drove past the Bulldogs and within four seats of their hosts. For the next half mile, neither Cornell nor Princeton could gain an advantage, both stroking at 32, but the Big Red had a stronger push in the last half-mile as they raised their rate to 34. The Tigers stroked up to 39, to no avail. Sparhawk was pleased with the improvement evident in the outing and felt that the Varsity really dished it out. By the JV race, the wind had switched to the stern, and the Tiger JV found themselves 2 lengths behind Yale. Syracuse, which had collided with Cornell, placed a further 2 lengths back, and the Big Red trailed. The Lightweight Varsity had a good week of practice and faster time trials, and Meislahn gave the Tigers a pretty good chance for the Saturday Big Three championship. The lights, however, found hostile conditions not unlike the heavies experience the previous week and failed to end the Cantabs eight-year winning streak. Battling headwinds and very rough water in the Charles River basin, the Tigers finished a half-length ahead of Yale but 1 lengths behind a Cantab eight that was obviously more accustomed to the adverse conditionsone of the few disadvantages of training on the protected waters of Lake Carnegie. The time was a protracted 6:58 over 2000 meters. Although Harvard was never headed, the Tigers were within six seats after half a mile. Princeton was unable to maintain a solid catch, a stable set, or a good rhythm as murky water crashed over the gunwales. Fortunately the Princeton JV rowed one of the more courageous races in recent annals to surpass the Cantabs by two seats in an astounding 7:43.5, nearly a minute longer than the Varsity event in a strong headwind. The much-deserved victory over both opponents found Yale trailing the dueling frontrunners badly. The Third Varsitys undefeated streak was dashed in the weather. The Sprints. The Tiger Varsities had solid showings at the Eastern Sprints. Sparhawk stood pat with his boating for the fifth-seeded heavies, but Meislahn engineered a little smoother and more powerful boat for the third-seeded lights with two internal switches. Both Varsities qualified for the finals. (continued)

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In the championship race, the lights placed fourth behind Harvard, Cornell and upstart Dartmouth, the best showing for the Orange and Black since 1959. The Tigers had a slow start but drove by Penn in the body of the race. The championship was fought between Harvard and Cornell, who were a length ahead of the rest of the field. The Tigers time in a varying headwind was 6:52.1. Princetons JV lights placed third in their grand final, less than a length behind winner Cornell and a half-length behind MIT. The good news for the heavies was a solid championship race at 34 to finish a mere two lengths behind winner Harvard. The bad news was that three other crews, Brown, Cornell and perhaps Yale, intervened in that gap. The Tigers appeared to finish in a dead heat with Yale for fourth but were placed fifth in the grand final in 6:28.5, avenging only their early-season loss to third-ranked Penn by nearly a length. The heavy JV failed to qualify for its grand final. Harvard took home both the Jope and Rowe Cups. The Tigers were third in the Jope. IRAs. As classes ended, the heavies soon turned their attention to the three-mile finale at the IRA. With the lightweight season over, captain-elect Prentke joined the heavy JV. The camaraderie and pain of the Armory, along with the odd exam and a more intimate graduation well to the North of Princeton, gave way to fifteen crews lined up across Lake Onondaga. When the dust cleared, the Tigers edged Brown by four seats to place third, a small amount of open water behind early-season victim Navy and winner Wisconsin. A marked improvement over the prior year, Princetons bronze was the Tigers best showing at the IRA since its second place (to Navys Olympic crew) in 1952. The JV were twelfth. seys of their opponents as an indication of the outcome of a contest. The freshman heavies started their rowing careers at Princeton by walking away with Rutgers new jerseys, while the lightweight team got off to a good start with a smashing victory over Columbia and Fordham. The following week, the Midshipmen from Annapolis provided stiff competition as the heavyweight frosh exchanged the lead several times, but in the end Navy could not match the Tiger boat, which crossed the line three-quarters of a length ahead in a time of 9:55.4. The light rookies rowed away from the meet with tees from both Navy and Rutgers to cap the second lightweight sweep in as many weeks. They demonstrated their prowess by dominating their challengers throughout the course to win, while second-place Navy wallowed in their wake three and a half-lengths behind, with Rutgers yet two more lengths astern. The following weekends results for the heavies on Lake Carnegie showed a loss to Penn but a victory over an outclassed Columbia. Cornell, however, edged out the charging lightweights for a frustrating tenth-of-a-second victory. On the windy Charles, the yearling heavies fell to both MIT and Harvard the following weekend. Victory also eluded the Tiger lights at home. A second-place finish to Penn by 2 lengths in a reasonably solid race was assuaged only by domination of Georgetown and Dartmouth. At Ithaca on the last regular season weekend, Yale took the heavyweight shirts, but the Tigers bested both Cornell and Syracuse. The Princeton lightweights were unable to handle the rough Charles River and were humbled in Big Three competition by seven lengths against Harvard and two behind Yale. The Cantabs finished in 7:19. The Eastern Sprints proved to be a disappointment as the heavyweight Tiger cubs failed to qualify for the finals. The Bengals lights ended their season placing fifth in the championship finals, five lengths behind winner Harvard. Penn was second, followed by Cornell and MIT. Gladstones heavyweight frosh had one more shot, and they redeemed themselves in spades at the IRAs. The Tigers finished second to Penn (the winner of the Sprints as well) in the two-miler against eleven crews. ADAPTED FROM THE 1967 BRIC-A-BRAC

Freshman Crews
During Freshman Week, the new recruits took to the oars, many for the first time, under the careful guidance of the neophyte coaches, senior Ernie Cruickshank for the lights and Steve Gladstone guiding the heavies. Students returning to campus over the Washington Street Bridge in the late afternoon witnessed a peculiar scene on the water: while the sun hung low over the lake, the rowers struggled to coordinate their difficult movements in the lugubrious training barge. Soon, however, the frosh were ready to move into the sleek shells, and the goal was shifted from individual to team coordination. When it became too cold for rowing late in the fall, they switched to dry land for conditioning. Development of stamina was accomplished by running, weightlifting and any other devious devices that the coaches could cook up. The ice on the lake broke early, allowing the crews back on the water sooner (but colder) than had been hoped. It is a tradition in crew that the victors accept the jer-

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VARSITY
Navy Trophy Logg Cup
Coach Sparhawk, P.H.Raymond 68, S.F.Brown 67, J.R.Millar 67, T.R.Johnson 68, S.T.Lindo 69, D.L.Marsh 68, R.G.Wright 69, J.M.Bogert 68, V.Lix 69 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
G.E.Hesselbacher 68, D.E.Wallender 69, D.J.Foy 69, I.R.Trimble 69, R.B.Fletcher 69, S.T.Lindo 69, F.T.Billings 68, W.G.Sykes 69, G.P.Miwa 69 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1970
L.K.Colman, A.B.Roberts, J.W.Dayton, J.S.Swanson, W.A.Hafner, J.R.Bird, J.G.Reeve, W.L.Irwin, Steve Gladstone (Coach), Front row: A.L. Johnston, R.B.Davies (Cox), K.S.Klarquist

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1967 was a year of continued innovation at the Class of 1887 Boathouse. To counteract their opponents advantage of winter training in indoor rowing tanks, the tank-less Tigers not only intensified its weight and circuit training, accompanied by rock music on vinyl LPs, but also, for the first time, the light and heavy varsity squads trumped the perennial problem of poor weather conditions during the early spring practice sessions by instituting an enduring tradition Princetons all-squad trip to Florida over inter-session. Two-a-day practices and increased camaraderie made the trip a worthwhile tradition that continued in future years. On the water, the year was one of intensive practice in small boats, interval training, unconventional European rigging, and shifting combinations of oarsmen. It was the last year that the IRA race was rowed over three miles. Off the water, it was a year of the Good Guy Songbook and luggagerack races. The first known use by Princeton rowing of plastic materialin oar sleevesoccurred in 1967. Little did anyone realize that it would lead in a few decades to woodless shells, virtually wood-less oars, kevlar and carbon fiber. Virtually all collegiate racing boats in the U.S. were made of wood, with Western Cedar skins, by George Pocock & Sons in Seattle and shipped throughout the country by truck and railcar. By 1967, foreign manufacturers such as Stemphli had just begun to make inroads with their wooden shells. The year was the best in recent history for both varsity squads. Charles, but Princetons bid for entries was rejected by Athletic Director R. Kenneth Fairman 34, who opined that rowing is a spring sport. Despite the rejection, the issue was engaged, and Tiger crews would join the incipient fall regattas in future years. Fall 1966 was spent in small boats as well as eights with weekly intersquad races. Over the winter, circuit training, weight lifting, and the dreaded stadium stairs were the bill of fare. The heavyweights veteran squad was unusually uniform in size and weight, averaging about 6 feet 2 and 193 pounds per man. The Tiger lights also boasted a deep and experienced team but lost first-boat junior Bob Braunohler to a broken knee suffered in a motorcycle accident and junior Bob Faron to illness (he remained on the team as the official Super 8 photographer under the nom de guerre Otto B. Faroninger). Opening Weekend Sweeps. Although weve been wiped out on the starboard side, Coach Pete Sparhawk observed that the crew was still moving well and gave the Tigers at least an even chance against Rutgers in the opening race. The lightweights started the season against Columbia. With five returning seniors who had won the Sprints as freshmen, the Lions were expected to offer good competition, but, as Meislahn observed, the Tigers arent exactly crying either. Princeton swept all eight races against Rutgers and Columbia by open water. Sparhawk was very surprised and pleased with the Heavyweight Varsitys victory of more than three lengths in 8:44.8 over 1 miles. Stroke Peter Raymond led the heavies to a start as high as 46, settled to 35 and had a length with a mile to go. The JV stretched an eight-seat lead with a quarter mile to go to a length, and finished in 9:21.6. The Lightweight Varsity began their race at 47 and settled to 37, compared to Columbias 32. The innovatively

Varsities

Princeton was optimistic on all fronts when the oarsmen returned to practice in September. The prior years results had, across the board, demonstrated that Princeton rowing was on the rise. Lightweight coach Fin Meislahn 64 thought Princeton would be the dark horse. We have a lot more experience, he said. The guys are a year older, a year stronger and a year smarter. I just hope they will be a length faster. The season would reveal that, while undoubtedly older and stronger, and arguably smarter, if they were a length faster, so unfortunately for the Tigers was their prime competition. In the fall, captains Prentke and Millar had heard of a new October event in Cambridge called the Head of the

GERMAN RIGGING tested by 1967 Lightweights

COACH FINLEY MEISLAHN 64 with Lightweight Captain Richard O. Prentke 67

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VARSITY
Wood-Hammond Cup
Coach Finley Meislahn, J.P.Doran 68, C.D.Byers 68, R.S.Jonash 68, C.M.Lewis 68, J.S.Deupree 69, B.B.McLucas 67, B.H.Triller 67, P.S.Sangren 68, B.C.Stoddard 69 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
B.P.Ketover 68, J.M.Warden 69, J.F.Kerrick 68, R.O.Prentke 67, J.H.Wetzel 67, S.C.Crane 69, W.J.English 68, P.B.Fitzpatrick 68, D.M.Cole 68 (Cox)

FRESHMEN
Class of 1970
Greg Reilly 67 (Coach), R.R.Johnson, Greene, D.B.Stone, T.R.Dingle, L.F.Braswell, J.L.Laird, M.F.Stuart, M.K.Payne, A.J.Gancarz (Cox)

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rigged Tigers (port = S, 5, 4, B; starboard = 7, 6, 3, 2) had difficulty shaking the Lions, who stayed within a length for the first mile, but stroke Jack Doran cranked it up with a half-mile to go and won going away by nearly two lengths, crossing the finish line at 40 in a time of 6:29.0. It was no contest in the JV race. The German-rigged Tiger Second Varsity had a length by the settle and won by four lengths in a time of 6:51.6. Navy Sunk. On April 15, both crews hosted Navy, with the Rutgers joining the lightweight race. Sparhawk was optimistic but remarked that its always safe to predict that Navy will be big and strong. Meislahn had spent the week lengthening the lightweights stroke and observed that his first boat was looking relatively better during the week. Both teams eschewed the prior weeks European rigging for these races. Princeton crew stock was further boosted as the heavies convincingly defeated a powerful, if not stylish, Navy boat for the sixth straight year. The two-length margin made the heavies a significant obstacle to Penn and Harvard in their contest for Eastern rowing supremacy. The Tigers had a half-length lead after a start at 44 and opened water by the mile mark at a steady 35. The time in a light headwind over the 1-mile course was 9:19.3. The only Bengal loss of the day was suffered by the JV. The race started in the rain after the Navy bow man played the last four stanzas of the Navy Hymn on his harmonica; he was afterward able to watch most of the race from a two-length advantage. The Tiger 2V crossed the line in 9:47. The lights swept both Navy and Rutgers on the familiar Lake Carnegie Henley course. The Varsity, back to a standard rigging, won a smashing victory by out-stroking and overpowering their opponents on an otherwise cold and gloomy day. Although the Navy six man jumped his slide more than a minute into the race, the Middies recovered quickly but were not able to regain contact with the Tigers, whose finishing time of 7:09.8 left Navy far behind at 7:20.2 and Rutgers many lengths further back. For the second consecutive week, the light JV romped. Their time of 7:23.2 surpassed Navy by seven seconds and swamped Rutgers by four boat lengths. Disappointing Road Trips. Both the light and heavy Varsity boats had been impressive as they approached their first encounter with perennial rivals Cornell and Penn, respectively, on the following weekend of April 22. According to Sparhawk, Penn probably has one of the fastest crews in the country. The Quakers had been first in the Varsity and Frosh IRA championships the prior spring and second in the JV. On the lightweight side, Meislahn observed that Cornell crews usually dominate the EARC. The unblemished records of both crews were marred during the least successful day of the springs competition. Penn swept the 59th annual Childs Cup regatta, rowed over 2000 meters in Philadelphia. Princetons Varsity Heavyweights surrendered an early lead in a 25-mph headwind and choppy water to the smooth Penn eight. A boat-stopping Tiger crab at the 1000 lost about two lengths, but Princeton re-engaged; the Tigers actually moved back on the Quakers, but there wasnt enough course left. The Bengals crossed the line 1 lengths behind the winning Penn time of 6:38. Penn helped make the Skimmer Day festivities complete, to the delight of 20,000 fans along the Schuylkill, by also defeating the Princeton JV in a time of 6:41, which left the Princeton second boat nearly five boat lengths behind. Columbia trailed in all contests. Up at Ithaca, the lightweight crews battled 40-mph crosswinds and were swept on the twisty Cayuga inlet course. In a disappointing performance, the Tigers narrowly lost to strong Cornell crews that were destined eventually to race at Henley. Cornells Varsity, the strongest of the Easts lightweight crews, outraced the Princeton first boat by 4.5 seconds and finished in 7:06. The Tigers led at the start and through the first turn, but the Big Red seized their victory margin in the second turn. The JV shell had an even more frustrating afternoon. They nearly equaled the time recorded by the Varsity, only to lose on the curved inlet course to a surging Big Red JV that drew even in the last 200 meters and won by a seat. The lead changed back and forth depending on which crew had its oars in the water. The 3V trailed Cornell by four lengths. The Tiger lights were frustrated but optimistic because their speed matched Cornell, but they simply could not handle the double turns and the wind as well. Lights Win, Heavies Lose on the Road. Fortunately, the Lightweight Varsity rebounded to exact a measure of revenge from Penn on their next outing. In a mild upset, the Tiger first boat reasserted itself as one of the Easts finest by sprinting to a respectable time of 6:09.3, one second in front of the highly rated Quaker Varsity. The Tigers were undoubtedly motivated on the dogleg of the Schuylkill course when the Penn cox screamed to the Tiger stroke Doran, here we come, to which he loudly gasped, The fk you are! Princeton retained the Wood-Hammond Cup for the third straight year. The Bengal second eight dropped their second straight race, by about two lengths, to the Penn 2V. Pete Sparhawk promised Harvard and MIT a good boat race and practiced a longer, lower stroke in anticipation of marginal conditions on the Charles. What the Tigers found were whitecaps that delayed the races by more than an hour. When the wind died down, the course for the Varsity race was uncharacteristically rowable with only a slight, cold tailwind at the 59th renewal of the Compton Cup. Sparhawk switched from leather to plastic oar sleeves to prevent the recurrence of a crab, and the Tigers rowed by far their best race of the season, according to cox Vernon Lix, but Harvard just outpulled us. On their way to another undefeated collegiate rowing season, Harvard gained a two-seat lead at the start, and both crews settled to 35. Harvard soon had a length and continued to pull away notwithstanding a stroke increased to 34 by Raymond. The Cantabs finished in 8:37.6 (continued)

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over the 1 course in the Charles River basin. Princetons credible time of 8:51.2 left MIT over two lengths behind. Harvard retained the Compton Cup for the fifth straight year. The JV had the most exciting race of the day, staying even with the Crimson 2V for the first mile before fading badly into third place. Final Weekend Disappointments. The final regularseason races occurred on a chilly Houseparties Weekend in May when the heavies hosted Yale and Cornell on Lake Carnegie for the Carnegie Cup, and the lights traveled to Derby, Connecticut, to contend for the Goldthwait Cup against Big Three rivals Harvard and Yale. There was no clear favorite going into the heavyweight race, but Cornell retained its hold on the Carnegie Cup, which the Tigers last won 15 years before. After two false starts, Yale and Princeton quickly moved out on the Big Red. Yale, in their short Stemphli shell, alternately took the lead and then yielded it to the Tigers. With a mile to go, the Bulldogs were in front, and Cornell, trailing Princeton by a half-length, raised its rate to start its move. At the post, the Big Red caught the Tigers. Cornell passed the Elis with a half-mile to go, but the German-rigged Princeton eight was not quittingit came from far behind with a powerful sprint at high stroke and succeeded in catching Yale, only to come up a foot short at the finish. Cornells time of 9:13.4 translated to open water over Yale and Princeton on the 1-mile course. According to a disappointed Sparhawk, the Varsity did a whale of a job and is still in the ball game. The Tiger JV placed second, more than two lengths behind winner Yale but a half-length ahead of Cornell. Coach Meislahn predicted that his crew had a real good chance to beat Harvard, but the Tiger 150s suffered a disappointing day on Yales broadly curved course. Harvard won all races despite a strong Princeton challenge. Princetons Varsity had the inside lane of the curved course and disposed of Yale early in the contest. Harvard maintained a half-length lead, but the Tigers were unable to make it up in the curve. Harvard could not move much either until the sprint, when it jumped out, and a valiant Tiger sprint engineered by cox Brooke Stoddard could not recover enough distance to move back on the Cantabs. Harvards courserecord time of 6:10.3 surpassed Princeton by about four seconds, while Yale trailed by two additional lengths. Despite a fast start, the Bengal JV, with a shuffled lineup, relinquished an early lead and lost about a length to Harvard in the body of the race. The Crimson sprinted away in the last quarter to win by three lengths. The spent Tigers were second, about half a length ahead of Yale. The Sprints. The Eastern Sprint Championships again took place at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 13, against all of the Easts major rowing schools. The lightweights learned a few things last weekendmaybe this weekend well teach them a few said a prescient Coach Meislahn, who regarded the Eastern Sprints as his Varsitys most outstanding performance of the season. Princeton placed a solid second to Cornell by about a third of a length in its preliminary heat and qualified for the afternoon finals. In an exciting race against the finest collegiate lightweight crews in the nation, Princeton ended its season well by teaching previously undefeated Harvard a lesson. Rowing stroke for stroke against the Cantabs in the adjoining lane, the Tigers edged Harvard by 0.7 of a second. Unfortunately, in the lanes outside of Harvard, the unusually strong Cornell eight was two lengths up at the finish, and a resurgent Penn crew occupied the length between the Big Red and the Tigers, who took the bronze. Columbia and Navy trailed. The European-rigged JV found unanticipated competition in the morning heat and placed a frustratingly close fourth to Cornell, Navy and Penn as the four crews crossed the line within half a length. The Tiger 2V avenged their frustration with a decisive 2-length win in the consolation race. The fourth-seeded Varsity heavyweights were not so fortunate. They were eliminated from the grand final as a result of a tough draw, tough luck and tough competition in its qualifying race, placing one second behind qualifying Northeastern. The true ability of the boat was displayed in a stellar performance in the consolation round in which the Princeton crew ran away from opposition in a time second only to that recorded by Harvard in winning the grand final over Penn and Northeastern. With a good race in our heat, wed probably have placed second or third in the finals, lamented Coach Sparhawk. The Tiger JV did not qualify for the finals. Both the heavies and the lights placed fifth in the overall point competition. A Stellar IRA Performance. The heavyweights had another chance at the major national heavyweight collegiate event of the year, the IRA Regatta, held in Syracuse on June 17. The crews enjoyed long practice sessions through the remainder of May and then workouts on Lake Carnegie and Onondaga Lake in Syracuse during the weeks following the close of the spring term. As in the previous year, Princeton produced an outstanding performance in these races. Princetons Varsity placed fourth in the three-mile contest, trailing a dominant Penn eight by four lengths. Wisconsin and Cornell intervened. The JV finished tenth to winner Navy. (This proved to be the last three-mile race at the IRAall subsequent races have been over a 2000-meter course.) The Tigers ended the season as one of the top crews in the country by its strong showing at Syracuse. In Summary. Coach Sparhawk emphasized his positive appraisal of the pretty good crew year by pointing out that, except for the narrow Carnegie Cup defeat, the Tigers dual meet record equaled the prior year, and that had been Princetons best in years. A fast consolation time at the Sprints and a fine all-around IRA performance enhanced the posi(continued)

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tive evaluation. For Coach Meislahn, the lightweight season, featuring three strong Princeton varsity boats, was the best in a decade, with the first boat demonstrating it was one of the top three crews in the country. from Cornell and Yale at the Carnegie Cup regatta. Returning to familiar Lake Carnegie, the Tiger frosh defeated Cornell by ten seconds and humiliated the Yalies by eighteen. The lights regular meet season ended with an unsatisfying second place in the Goldthwait Cup competition at Derby. Harvard had a strong start and was never behind. The Cantabs maintained their domination of the frosh version of the event by solidly defeating Princeton by 11 seconds, but fortunately Yale trailed in the third spot on their own course. On May 13, the heavyweight boat came the closest to achieving its full potential, said Gladstone, during the Eastern Sprint Championships. In a strong performance, the fourth-seeded frosh heavies qualified for the finals and outraced a large field to place third in the East, trailing Harvard by five seconds and a resurgent Rutgers by a foot, but surpassing a Penn eight that had previously beaten the Tigers. The Princeton lightweight yearlings were effectively boxed out in the morning heats of the Sprints, placing fourth to Harvard, MIT and, by six seats, a Yale crew they had beaten the prior week. Faced with the consolation contest, the Tigers rallied to a second-place showing, losing by half a length to Columbia, to complete their season. At the IRA championships at Syracuse a month later, the frosh heavyweights had a week of fantastic trials but could not quite match the pace they set at the Sprints. After establishing an early lead, the Tigers sagged at the end of the long, two-mile distance to finish fourth in a field of fifteen, behind Penn, Rutgers and Washington. ADAPTED FROM THE 1968 BRIC-A-BRAC by Dick Prentke

Freshman Crews
In the estimation of Steve Gladstone, now in his second year as coach of the Princeton frosh heavyweight crew, the 1966-67 squad was the strongest in recent years. Certainly this was the evaluation held around the East after an impressive frosh showing in a winter trip to Florida followed by solid early season workouts. Coached by veteran Lightweight Varsity cox Greg Reilly 67, the lightweight frosh also impressed early. A large fall turnout enabled the coaches to construct their squads around a solid nucleus of oarsmen who entered Princeton with rowing experience. Grueling daily fall and winter practice sessions combined this hard core of experienced oarsmen with strong newcomers into a deep squads. The first frosh heavy boat lived up to its advance notices by easily defeating a strong Rutgers crew by nearly two lengths in the seasons April 8 opener. The time was 9:01.3. The German-rigged yearling lights stormed past Columbia by two lengths in 6:48, the second boat won by four lengths, and the third was only a length and a half behind the Lion second boat. Freshman hopes rose even higher the following weekend when the Tigers heavies buried Navy by five lengths over the 1-mile Lake Carnegie course. The frosh lights rowed only Rutgers that day, the Navy plebe lights not being allowed off campus. The Tigers 7:26.5 was a four-length margin over Rutgers for Lake Carnegies Henley distance. Pleasant dreams and press clippings were ruined in away races the following weekend. The Tiger yearling heavies, daunted by Penns demoralizing early sprint, were upset by their hosts in a 3 length loss over 2000 meters. The 2F heavies lost by two lengths. Meanwhile, after the long bus ride to Ithaca, the Princeton lightweight freshman boat led by a half-length in the body of the race but lost a heartbreaker to Cornell by two seats, while the 2F lights suffered a fourlength defeat. At Harvard the following weekend, the heavy frosh were shocked by two lengths in choppy conditions in 9:06.7 for 1 miles. The Tiger lightweight frosh could do no better, despite a shorter bus ride, and suffered further frustration on the Schuylkill. They were down early, did not handle the curve well and lost to a powerful Penn crew by three lengths. Following the Harvard debacle, the Princeton frosh heavies became the first in recent years to wrest a victory

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VARSITY
Carnegie Cup Navy Trophy Logg Cup
P.Raymond 68 (Stroke), A.Roberts 70, J.Dayton 70, S.Lindo 69, W.Hafner 70, D.Marsh 68, D.Wallender 69, D.Foy 69, V.Lix 69 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
L.Colman 70 (Stroke), R.Wright 69, J.Bird 70, J.Swanson 70, R.S.Wetmore 70, R.Fletcher 69, W.Irwin 70, J.Reeve 70, B.R.Millman 70 (Cox)

SECOND FRESHMEN
Class of 1971
F.A.Camm, R.L.Barber,J.B.Lieber, R.P.Slocum, O.R.Bengur, E.C.Yeary, B.J.Reese, E.Claxton, Gladstone (Coach)

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1968 promised to be a banner year for Princeton crews. Both squads were well stocked with returning lettermen; coaches Sparhawk and Meislahn had settled into their head-coaching jobs and knew their crews well, and the 1967 results suggested great things to come. Crews jelled and times fell during intercession workouts in Florida. The ice broke early (with help from Meislahn and Sparhawk), and boats were on the lake making heady progress during those infamous early spring practices. More importantly, the 1968 crews established an intersquad camaraderie that remains to this day the hallmark of Princeton crews. Lights and heavies rowed together, and against each other on Lake Carnegie a practice that would not have been considered only a few years before. A spirited and healthy competition evolved, which bode well for the racing schedule ahead. In the first regattas of the season, the lights traveled to Columbia, where they handily swept the Lion crews on the Harlem River. The biggest threats to Tiger crews that day were wakes from the Circle Liners and bricks thrown from the bridges high above the course. Heavyweight crews enjoyed a similar result against Rutgers on Lake Carnegie. In good conditions, Pete Raymonds Varsity eight controlled a well-rowed race from the start, and pulled away in the final two hundred meters to win by a length. A week into the season, and the boathouse was undefeated. Both squads bussed to Annapolis on April 12th to enjoy the Midshipmens hospitality at the US Naval Academy. Dinner in the mess hall made Old Nassaus dining halls seem sinfully excessive by comparison. Our hosts magnanimity extended to the following day on the Severn, where Princeton crews scuttled the Academy fleet. In near-perfect conditions, the lights went out fast, settled to a 34 and won going-away by four boat lengths. Later that afternoon, wind and chop appeared on the river, but the first heavy eight rowed through the conditions and crossed the line almost three lengths ahead of a highly touted Navy boat. Only the lightweight frosh fell that day, when the plebes held off a charging Tiger eight to win by a deck length. The next week would prove more difficult for both squads. The 150s were home against defending eastern champs Cornell, with Georgetown and Rutgers completing the Platt Cup slate. A field trip to Buxtons after the Navy victory may have been the reason the lights spent much of Friday afternoon in the showers, jumping rope with rubber sweat suits. John Big Bux Kerrick was particularly busy. The next day, Cornell was able to withstand a furious Tiger sprint, but just barely. The Big Red won by only a second, with Georgetown and Rutgers far back in the leaders wakes. The result was disappointing, but not discouraging. The Junior Varsity met a similar fate, while the frosh garnered a boatload of shirts, beating Cornell by half a length. Meanwhile, the heavies had motored up the Turnpike to compete against Columbia and a powerful Penn team for the Childs Cup. Despite high hopes and high strokes, the Quaker crews proved too tough an adversary on that day, defeating the Varsity and JayVee boats by good margins. Princetons freshman crew raised a determined challenge, but ran out of steam near the end and lost by a mere four seats. Some extraordinary work on the lake, including seat races, super intervals and bridge-to- dam marathons was undertaken to prepare the boats for their next opponents. Harvard, the premier crew in the country would come to Princeton, along with MIT, to race the heavies for the Compton Cup. The lightweights would also row on their home course, against Penn crews whose times gave ample reason for concern. A festive atmosphere prevailed as almost twenty crews from the best programs in the country prepared their shells and psyches for the paddle to the starting line. In an early race, on flat water with a light mist, R. H. Bob Braunohler stroked the Varsity lights to a satisfying half-length victory a feat duplicated by the Tiger frosh. The JayVees suffered a disappointing loss to Penn, the result of technical difficulties rather than Quaker superiority. The Wood-Hammond trophy was secure in the Princeton boathouse for another year. Unfortunately, that afternoon, the men from Harvard proved too tough for a game heavyweight crew. The margin of victory in the Varsity race was three lengths, with MIT another three lengths back. Junior Varsity and freshman crews fared no better against the what was then most powerful boathouse in US rowing. May had arrived, trees along the lake were in full bloom, and optimism reigned as both squads prepared for their last regular season tests before the Sprints. The lightweight crews would host Harvard and Yale for the Big Three championship in the Goldthwait Cup, and the heavies prepared to take on Yale and Cornell for the Carnegie Cup at Derby. Both regattas would serve as ample and telling warm-ups for the eastern championships. The lights had prevailed over Harvard a year earlier at the Sprints, and despite the Cantabs undefeated record, coach Meislahn and his crew felt that the boys from Cambridge were in for a surprise. Events began ominously as both the frosh and JayVee boats lost convincingly to Harvard, while beating the Yalies in close races for second. Unfor(continued)

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VARSITY
R.H.Braunohler 68, P.S.Sangren 68, J.F.Kerrick 68, J.S.Slete 70, D.B.Stone 70, L.J.Braswell 70, C.M. Lewis 68, J.P.Doran 68, D.M.Cole 68 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
C.D.Byers 68, J.S.Deupree 69, J.P.Gaynor 70, J.M.St.John 70, J.R.Crowley 70, C.E.Walter 70, P.B.Fitzpatrick 68, J.B.Fox 70, B.C.Stoddard 69 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITY
B.P.Ketover 68, R.C.Seaver 68, M.H.Fry 68, J.M.Warden 69, G.OKeefe 65, L.W.Edinger 70, R.S.Faron 68, G.W.Shepherd 70, S.A.Newman 69 (Cox)

CLASS OF 1968 20TH REUNION

JUNE 4, 1988
Standing: F.Billings, T.Johnson, M. Lewis, G.Waring, K.Michaelchuck, R.Braunohler, C. Seaver, C.Toughey, J.Keller Kneeling: D.Tunderman, C.Byers, S.Sangren, L.Spitz, J.Bogert, R.Prentke, J.Doran, R.Faron, P.Gloyd, G.OKeefe

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tunately, the only surprise for Harvard was the margin by which they defeated the Princeton Varsity. They reached the dam three lengths ahead of the Tiger eight, and four ahead of Yale. The Johnnys had the inside lane, rowing into a strong quartering headwind, but that alone could not account for the eleven-second margin. Harvard had successfully defended the Goldthwait Cup, and Princeton was left pondering what this might mean for the sprints. Meanwhile, up at Yale, a different story was unfolding for the heavyweights. It appeared that the Tiger crews were ready to take out the two previous weeks frustrations on the unsuspecting boats from Ithaca and New Haven. The freshmen opened with an impressive win over Cornell and Yale. In the JayVee race, the Bulldogs jumped out at the start, but it was a three-boat race at the halfway point. A silent twenty by the Tigers went unanswered by the opposition, and put them four seats ahead with five hundred to go. A smooth transition to thirty-eight sealed a six-second win for Princeton. Not to be outdone, and buoyed by their teammates success, the Varsity eight lead from start to finish in one of their best efforts of the season. Cornell and Yale handed over their jerseys, and Princeton swept the Carnegie Cup for the first time in over a decade. The Tiger heavyweights were ready for the trip to Worcester. May 11th was a blustery day for the EARC Regatta, and lane assignments were an undeniable factor. Pacing themselves in the morning heat, the heavies took an easy third, behind Wisconsin and Northeastern. Turning it up a bit, they showed their real mettle in the Petite Final, finishing impressively, five seconds ahead of Cornell, Dartmouth and the rest of the field. In a thrilling Grand Final, the best crews in the East came to the line, and finished just as expected: Harvard first by a length, then Penn and Princeton. Not a victory perhaps, but hardly a head-hanger. On the lightweight side of the program, things were developing a little differently. The frosh lost a disappointing race to Yale, and the JayVees finished out of the money at sixth. The Varsity appeared to have Princetons best chance for a title. In the opening heat, Harvard jumped a slide and finished dead last several boatlengths behind victorious Princeton. Penn beat Cornell in the other heat, and the Tigers had defeated Penn in the regular season. However, Harvard demanded and received an unprecedented reprieve and was allowed into the final as a seventh boat, coincidentally drawing the protected lane on the side of Quinsigamond away from the troubling cross winds. Navy developed an equipment problem during warm-ups for the final, and the race was postponed while another was run. There was a wait, another warm-up and another postponement. The wind was growing, and the adrenaline was being depleted. When the race finally started, Harvard was on the other side of the lake, and the Tigers could not get a swing. Harvard won going away, and Princeton finished a disappointing fourth behind Penn and Cornell, two lengths back. No Princeton coxswains were thrown in the lake that day, and it was a long bus ride home; lightened only by Ron Jonashs easy defense of the luggage rack 360 title. One race remained for the heavyweight crews the IRA regatta at Syracuse, NY. Princeton continued its late season momentum by joining Penn as the only two crews in the country to qualify boats for all three finals. The freshman and JayVee boats rowed well, but finished in the middle of the pack. The Varsity was joined in the finals by Penn, Northeastern, a surprising Brown, Rutgers and the best from the West, the Washington Huskies. For the first time, the IRAs were rowed at the Olympic distance, 2000 meters, rather than the traditional three miles. Penn jumped off the line first, followed by Princeton and Northeastern. Washington rowed characteristically with a longer stroke and lower rate. Penn lead at the halfway mark, but the race was far from decided. The Tigers and Huskies were close behind, while Northeastern, Rutgers and Brown fell further back. As the finish line crept closer, Penn took it up and pulled away to win by five seconds. Princeton and Washington raced for second, with the Huskies crossing the line a scant second ahead of the Tigers. Although Tigers seasons had ended a few strokes short of victory, there was a genuine feeling of fulfillment for work accomplished and races won by the graduating seniors. Pete Raymond was awarded the W. Lyman Biddle medal for heavyweights, and Jack Doran the Gordon Sikes medal for lights. Princeton crew was on the rise. Fouryear rowers from the Class of 68; Braunohler, Byers, Cole, Doran, Faron, Fitzpatrick, Fry, Kerrick, Ketover, Lewis, Marsh, OKeefe, Raymond, Sangren and Seaver left their mark on Princeton crew, and left the boathouse a better place.

Jack Doran

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FOUR YEAR VETERANS
Standing: P.S.Sangren, R.S.Faron, J.P.Doran, R.S.Jonash, R.C.Seaver, P.B.Fitzpatrick, J.F.Kerrick, C.M. Lewis, G. OKeefe, M.H.Fry, C.D.Byers, R.H.Braunohler On Top: B.P.Ketover. On Knee: D.M.Cole

FRESHMEN FIRST BOAT

Class of 1971
R.S.Jonash 68 (Coach), C.E.Drummond, J.J.Tolson, M.A.Moorstein, H.N.Lape, R.G.Devlin, N.H.Bokum, C.S.Wilson, T.K.Pettus, R.B.Davies 70 (Coach) E.W.Scudder (Cox)

FRESHMEN SECOND BOAT

Class of 1971
J.B.Thompson, G.K.Bergey, J.A.Goldkamp, R.W.Baker, E.G.Berenson, M.L.Roberts, R.W.Tygenhof, R.E.Drake, J.A.Gwynne (Cox)

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Coed Crew at Princeton

When Princeton University undergraduates overwhelmingly applauded the advent of coeducation two years ago, few of them imagined that coeds would eventually infringe on one of the most traditional of masculine activities and organize an unofficial crew team. Sparhawk, the head coach of Princetons heavyweights since 1966. Rowing really isnt very feminine. Id just as soon see the girls playing tennis or something. Ron Brachman, the captain of the heavyweights added, Your shoulders and arms have to be really strong for crew. Most of the guys who row are The female squad, huge, in the right placesfor composed of 12 athleticmen. minded coeds, participated Lots of girls are on the in the conditioning program pond every year at Smith, conducted during February by a weight lifting coach and argued Amy Richlin, a resolute sophomore transfer from is trying to arrange meets with boat clubs at Wellesley, Smith College and the only girl with any rowing experiSmith and other colleges. ence. I havent the faintest Although the girls file idea why people find crew so into a flat, learning shell at 6:30 each morning and prac- distasteful for women. People seem to picture the woman tice rowing under the direction of Princetons freshman athlete as the roller derby type. crew coach, they have yet Helen Zia, a first-year stuto persuade everyone that a dent from Willingboro, N.J., womens place is in a boat. contends, There is really no Crew is an endurance type of sport and Im not en- difference between crew and tirely convinced that women tennis for women, then notes, crew is one of the last male should compete, said Pete strongholds. One masculine crew figure who has praised the girls is Jim Rathschmidt, the freshman coach, and long-time head coach at Yale who has taught oarsmen for more than 30 years. Ive enjoyed teaching the girls, he commented, They have a good attitude, seem to be having fun and are learning quicker than I thought they would. I dont exactly advocate women participating in crew, but if they want to do it, I approve. Although the girls maintain they chose to practice at dawn solely to avoid class conflicts, the early sessions also enable them to avoid the mens crew, which divided in opinion toward their female counterparts. We doubt that theyre going to do anything besides just get out on the water and play. Were sort of indifferent to the whole thing, stated Peter Wettstein, a junior from Lebanon, N.J. and a member of the varsity heavyweights. The guys kid around about it, said Sparhawk, an alternate on the 1956 Olympic team. Some kids think its bad, but theres no solid front against it. The girls arent bothering anyone in the morning. Its no secret Im not wildly enthusiastic about womens crew, especially in the mens boat house. To throw in a bunch of girls who might just play around is completely inconsistent with our serious atmosphere. It would really be a pain in the neck to have the girls down here in the afternoon. Nevertheless, Miss Richlin suggests that attitude may be softening at a school that for its first 222 years did not even have female students. New York Times April 3, 1971

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VARSITY
Carnegie Cup Navy Trophy Logg Cup
L.K.Colman 70, J.W.Dayton 70, R.G.Wright 69 (Capt.), D.I.Foy 69, R.S.Wetmore 70, D.Wallender 69, K.E.Hofammann 71, M.L.Roberts 71, B.R.Millman 70 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITY
J.P.B.Paris 71, W.L.Irwin 70, M.Watkins 71, S.T.Lindo 69, J.R.Bird 70, M.A.Ladra 71, R.L.Barber 71, B.T.Reeve 71, R.J.Brachman 71 (Cox)

FIRST FRESHMEN
Class of 1972
A.J.Parrott, P.J.Wettstein, R.R.Krug, J.R.Paulson, D.J.Harrison, R.J.Turk, C.P.Reeve, D.M.Briggs, W.W.Watts (Cox)

SECOND FRESHMEN
Class of 1972
V.Sessa, W.H.Brockman, C.L.Fisher, Weidenbacher, D.M.Prowler, T.H.Jones, E. Melum, M.C.French, E.F.Brissie (Cox)

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Review of the 1969 Year

Crew

Princeton Oarsmen in International Competition

The rowing season was a long one for four Princeton oarsmen, but it was a successful one as well. As they started training on Lake Carnegie in mid-September at the beginning of the school year, Andy Roberts 70, Sandy Dayton 70, Macneil Watkins 71, and coxswain Bruce Millman 70 realized that within a year, and with several thousand hard miles of practice behind them, they would be nervously awaiting the starting commands, Etes-vous pret, in their heat of the European Championships in Klagenfurt, Austria. The three young oarsmen and their coxswain had convincingly earned the honor to represent their country in the yearly international crew championships by winning not only one of the seven United States National Championship events in Philadelphia, but two. In their first race, the four Princeton men joined with Jay Mimier from the Wisconsin crew to row the tricky four with coxswain event in St. Catherines, Canada, at the combined Canadian Henley and Canadian National Championships. The trip north and the effort of training paid off, and the crew won its race. However, the all important U.S. Nationals were still a month ahead, and the crew returned to the Charles for more hard training. Olympic gold medal Vesper Boat Club was known to start slowly in the summer season and then to finish strongly in the August Nationals. Also there was an untested Stanford Rowing Association crew, made up of Harvard men and yet another Princeton man, Doug Foy, number five in the same varsity crew as the others. As they suspected, Stanford was the crew to beat in Philadelphia. Rowing strongly, the four Princeton men won the championship race by a length over their old teammate, Doug Foy, and so earned the right to race in that same event at Klagenfurt. However, in an effort to garner more laurels, the four teamed up with three Harvard and two Wisconsin men to row the eight oared race, the most important championship event. Their success here was even more commanding than in the four oared shell race a seven second victory over highly rated Vesper. The opening heat in Klagenfurt for Andy, Bruce, Sandy and Mac was exactly that: a race against the internationally fastest. West Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy and host country Austria were drawn by the Princeton group, now officially the USA
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Lightweights, heavyweights, varsity, J.V., frosh, first, second and third boats; to the casual spectator, crew presents a complicated hierarchy. Unspectacular athletes who go without chrome-plated showers or personalized warm-up jackets, crew practices all year, every day, even when the lake is frozen. Few students even know the name of the 1969 varsity heavyweight captain. It was Gary Wright. Having rowed together two days, the varsity heavies opened the season by leaving Rutgers in their wake. A promise? This promise was fulfilled. They came away from the Eastern Sprints with third place, the best finish for a Tiger eight in 18 years. True, they lost to Penn and Harvard, but so does everybody else. Only the anonymous freshman lights second boat defeated Harvard. Crew is not a sport you forget. Two thousand meters is a long way, and it takes only the first hundred to realize it. Out there, there are no time-outs, no fresh substitutions, no pep talks by the coach; nothing but lots of water and a boat full of purple shirts slowly pulling away. For this six minutes of torture, you have practiced for months, run the stadium steps after dark, been late to dinner for a year, and are now giving up your only free weekend. And even if you win, no one congratulates you in the halls, and your professor asks why your paper is late. 1970 BRIC-A-BRAC

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VARSITY
Standing: H.N.Lape 71, J.S.Slete 70, H.M.St.John 70, L.W.Edinger 70, T.K.Pettus 71, J.S.Deupree 69, J.R.Crowley 70, L.F.Braswell 70, D.B.Stone 70, C.E.Walter 70 Kneeling: S.A.Newman 69, D.V.Hicks 70, G.W.Shepherd 70, J.B.Fox 70, D.B.Drysdale 70, E.C.Yeary 71, A.G.Piranian 69, J.A.Gwynne 71, B.C.Stoddard 69 (Cox)

FIN MEISLAHN 64
Coaching on Florida Semester Break

FRESHMEN
Class of 1972
R.P.Wright (Stroke), T.H.Jones, K.P.Giesecke, J.P.Callison, B.K.Farwell, D.G.Bullock, J.J.Griffin, J.T.Davidson, W.L.Irwin, R.F.Peake (Cox) Coach: Robert B. Davies 70

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