Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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VARSITY C REW Ferguson, Thorson, Birch, H.izeltine, Pierce, Beaman, Willcox, Kohl A S the first weeks of March rolled around this - vear a small rowboat, heavily manned, could be seen laboriously forcing its way through the ice around the boathouse float. The occupants of this cumbersome craft were crew men, men tired of the long months of work indoors on the rowing ma- chines, were itching to get their hands on a genuine twelve foot oar instead of the meaningless handle of the practice device. Their object was to break the ice on the river so that it would drift down stream and leave them a place to row. This little episode could be witnessed for several days, and finally, when the ice did clear away a little, the crews took to the river with great enthu- siasm. Since then thev have been on the river every day, either before breakfast or after five in the after- noon. Weather is no consideration to them. They row, rain or shine, snow or sleet. Frequently they come in after practice with ice on their oar blades. All of this typifies the spirit of the Crew men at Tech. It is hard to realize the handicaps they work under. Their classes do not permit them to practice until five o ' clock in the afternoon. If it is too dark to practice then they get up before breakfast to row. But in either case they never have much more than an hour or an hour and a half in which to practice each day. In addition to this, their studies do not allow them to get to bed earl v. With these things to consider, we cannot help ad- miring a Tech Crew man. Whatever the conditions. JUNIOR VARSITY CREW Easton, Pratt, O ' Connor, Freiberg, Lowenstein, Seeleman, Hubbard, Lawrence 156

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' r.± Price, Pitkin, Johnson, Hamilton, Tompkins, Rethorst, Ferguson, Daley, Mason, Busch, Morton, Weppler, Keithley Parker, Horton, Hayes, Thornton, Patterson, Essley, Bulkley, Ozol, Garth Gidiey, Rockwell, Norton, Smedile, Goldsmith, NeeJham, GooJwin, Wojtczak SPORT Basketball Boxing Crew Cross Country Fencing Golf Gym Hockey Lacrosse Tennis and Squash Wrestling Track Suimming Rifle Soccer Equipment MANAGER Charles Richmond Gidle ' , Joseph Anthonv Smedile John Stevens Mason John Buxton Pitkin Matthew Latlin Rockwell Harold Elliott Proutv Norman Gilbert Tompkins Paul William Daley Robert Embree deRaismes Alfred Eugen Busch Goodwin deRaismes Walter Stanley Wojtczak Robert Herman Goldsmith Joseph Faber Keithle - George Robert Weppler Karl Perlev Goodwin CAPTAIN William Willis Garth Thomas Philip Norton John Robert Ferguson, Jr. Douglas Chalmers Rudolph Jacob Ozol Rudolph Jacob Ozol Ro?er Everett Needham Franklin Peabodv Parker Joel Burr Bulklev Scott Carson Rethorst Josiah Spaulding Heal Stanle - Theodore Johnson James Fergus Patterson Charles Frederick Price, Jr. John Paul Hamilton 155

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VARSITY 1 50-LB. CREW Bcckwich, Uolk-ii, Hrauer, Grant, Jaeger, Phillips, Clifford, Haines Clark (Cox) he rows, and he rows to win. He is not always suc- cessful, but he does not give up when he loses. Win or lose, he is always a sportsman. The rowing season lasts throughout the entire school ear. The boats are on the river from the last of September till the middle of November, when the weather will no longer permit rowmg. Then the crews work out on the machines until early March when the ice breaks up and they can get on the river once more. Their first regatta is in the last part of April. Thev usually have four to five regattas, row- ing against such crews as Yale, Harvard, Princeton Navv, Penn, Cornell, Columbia, and Syracuse. This year there were four regattas, all resulting unfavor- ably for Tech. The leader of the spirit in this sport is the coach, William Haines. For many years he has been at the boathouse to instruct Tech ' s crews in the art of rowing, and everyone who has ever known him at all is loud in his praise of Bill as a leader, a sportsman, and a good fellow. Coach Haines is ably assisted by Bill Lumkin, who just came to us this ' ear to replace Al Dunning as Freshmen coach. FRESHMAN CREW Haggerty, Montgomery, Hoke, Glacken, Church, Chapin, Weir, Draper, Dunning Coach) Smith (Cox) 157