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Men's Varsity Crew:
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[[Category:Athletics]]
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*[[Men's Varsity Crew]]
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*[[Women's Varsity Crew]]
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*[[Women's Novice Crew]]
  
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Competes in the annual [[Schnellstiegen]] against the [[Nordic Ski Team]] and and [[Alpine Ski Team]].
 
  
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Varsity is coached by Peter S. Wells '79, former nordic skiier, cycling enthusiast, and easily the greatest rower in Williams history.
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== History ==
  
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Has produced a number of national team members, including Mark Cullen '90 and G. Lindsay Brown '86 (Seoul Olympics,1988), current head coach of St. Andrews School Crew, a program which disproportionately feeds Williams Crew just as the larger school disproportionately feeds the college.
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Rowing was one of Williams' first sports, surfacing on campus in 1869 by the efforts of what was described by the school's administration as a 'decidedly burlesque' group. Williams continued to row until 1879 when it left the Saratoga Regatta along with Harvard, Yale and Bowdoin, to protest gambling and betting on collegiate rowing.
  
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Recruited freshmen typically walk onto varsity, which is atypical even at the Division III level.
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In the 1930's, two very enthusiastic school-boy rowers from St. Paul's School of New Hampshire and Kent School of Connecticut started rowing at Williams. Although they attracted 30 to 40 converts each year, the college was not impressed, and felt the sport would "spell the ruin of all sports in the balmy months of the year." In the early 1940's, attrition and the effects of World War II left the program quite literally without anyone to man the oars.
  
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Divisions mean nothing; men's crew races Harvard and European National teams in the fall and MIT and Holy Cross in the spring.
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In 1968 John A. Shaw '62 returned to Williams to teach history. Shaw's energy and financial backing started Williams rowing once again, but unlike the previous two attempts, this time it was for good. One of the college shells is appropriately named the Pride and Persistence.
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Like all men's collegiate rowing, not goverened by the NCAA.  
 
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Varsity men have won Little Three's the past six years, making the owners of the [[Saratoga Oar]] and defenders of the longest winning string in (the admittedly brief) Little Three rowing history.
 

Latest revision as of 02:37, March 15, 2006


History

Rowing was one of Williams' first sports, surfacing on campus in 1869 by the efforts of what was described by the school's administration as a 'decidedly burlesque' group. Williams continued to row until 1879 when it left the Saratoga Regatta along with Harvard, Yale and Bowdoin, to protest gambling and betting on collegiate rowing.

In the 1930's, two very enthusiastic school-boy rowers from St. Paul's School of New Hampshire and Kent School of Connecticut started rowing at Williams. Although they attracted 30 to 40 converts each year, the college was not impressed, and felt the sport would "spell the ruin of all sports in the balmy months of the year." In the early 1940's, attrition and the effects of World War II left the program quite literally without anyone to man the oars.

In 1968 John A. Shaw '62 returned to Williams to teach history. Shaw's energy and financial backing started Williams rowing once again, but unlike the previous two attempts, this time it was for good. One of the college shells is appropriately named the Pride and Persistence.

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